{"id":809,"date":"2009-11-22T17:09:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T04:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=809"},"modified":"2009-11-22T17:09:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T04:09:48","slug":"balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Goddess and I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070531\/REVIEWS\/705310301\/1023\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie Daley<\/a> last night and we&#8217;re <i>still<\/i> talking about it.  So many layers, so many lines to read between, and so much to savour and consider.<\/p>\n<p>It being a rainy afternoon, I&#8217;ve just finished watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reelviews.net\/php_review_template.php?identifier=619\" target=\"_blank\">Rambo<\/a> and enjoyed it tremendously.  Was I flashing on my teen years where I grew up with the first three instalments in the franchise?*  Rather likely.<\/p>\n<p>And I can&#8217;t help thinking: does my unalloyed enjoyment of <i>Rambo<\/i> make me a Bad Person?  Or just Naughty?  Time may tell.<\/p>\n<p>\n* <small>I laughed out loud when, asked about the intervening forty years between being drafted for the Vietnam War and his current situation in Thailand, Rambo says, <i>It&#8217;s complicated<\/i>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Goddess and I watched Stephanie Daley last night and we&#8217;re still talking about it. So many layers, so many lines to read between, and so much to savour and consider. It being a rainy afternoon, I&#8217;ve just finished watching Rambo and enjoyed it tremendously. Was I flashing on my teen years where I grew &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/balance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Balance&#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":[9,4],"tags":[108,109],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-scriptwriting","tag-rambo","tag-stephanie-daley"],"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\/809","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=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}