{"id":34,"date":"2008-02-17T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.249.26.136\/wordpress\/?p=34"},"modified":"2008-02-17T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T11:36:00","slug":"1203266160000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some day I&#8217;ll learn my lesson and I will STOP watching Will Ferrell movies.&nbsp; Today was not that day.&nbsp; I awoke at 4:30 A.M. for some reason beyond bladder maintenance and simply could not get back to sleep.&nbsp; So I watched this thing.&nbsp; Was it funny?&nbsp; Sure.&nbsp; Was it scary?&nbsp; Yes, because I firmly believe there is a large segment of the American population who watched this movie and believed that it was SOMEONE&#8217;S biography or, worse, now aspire to the &quot;ideals&quot; exhibited by Ricky Bobby and his wife and kids.&nbsp; I fear these people and their capacity to breed.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Cole was a hoot as Ricky&#8217;s father.&nbsp; I&#8217;m convinced he can portray anything and pull it off.&nbsp; He is one of the more underrated actors of our time.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, I have another item for my Bucket List:&nbsp; To tame Komodo Dragons in Sri Laka and train them to perform Hamlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have another item for my Bucket List:&nbsp; To tame Komodo Dragons in Sri Laka and train them to perform Hamlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[3],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}