{"id":1143,"date":"2006-03-06T21:20:56","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T21:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2006-03-06T21:20:56","modified_gmt":"2006-03-06T21:20:56","slug":"surprise_decisi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1143","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crash<\/EM> was the best movie of the year<\/A>?  Really?  I’m not saying the film was utterly horrible (unlike Michael and Jessa over at Bookslut<\/A>, both of whom I suspect of plotting serious bodily harm against the film’s director and producers), but it did feel like an overly long ABC Afterschool Special.  Racism is bad.  Got that, kids?  I haven’t seen Brokeback Mountain<\/EM> yet, so I’m not qualified to comment on that film’s merits, but I am curious to know whether supposedly liberal Hollywood has an unacknowledged streak of homophobia running through it. <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crash was the best movie of the year?  Really?  I’m not saying the film was utterly horrible (unlike Michael and Jessa over at Bookslut, both of whom I suspect of plotting serious bodily harm against the film’s director and producers), but it did feel like an overly long ABC Afterschool Special.  Racism is bad.  Got […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ir","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}