{"id":737,"date":"2009-10-12T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2009-10-12T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T18:00:05","slug":"pick-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/pick-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>John August<\/b> posted recently about the ubiquity of <a href=\"http:\/\/johnaugust.com\/archives\/2009\/no-signal\" target=\"_blank\">lost cellphone signals<\/a> in movies.  It <i>does<\/i> happen &#8211; constantly in just-remote-enough Fortress Mamea &#8211; but its use in film and television is beginning to grate as much as the ol&#8217; <i>I have vital information to impart but the phone is not safe so let us rendezvous in a dark alley where I will be killed just before we meet<\/i> device.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nYes, the real world in which we live is imperfect.  The world which your characters inhabit is just as imperfect, but only enough for the audience to recognise it as such.  Adapt accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John August posted recently about the ubiquity of lost cellphone signals in movies. It does happen &#8211; constantly in just-remote-enough Fortress Mamea &#8211; but its use in film and television is beginning to grate as much as the ol&#8217; I have vital information to impart but the phone is not safe so let us rendezvous &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/pick-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pick Up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[97,98],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","tag-cellphone","tag-plot-device"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}