{"id":119124,"date":"2021-01-28T18:58:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T00:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=119124"},"modified":"2021-01-28T18:58:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T00:58:56","slug":"todays-quote-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clarissa, on <i><a href=\"https:\/\/clarissasblog.com\/2021\/01\/28\/movie-notes-the-african-queen-1951\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The African Queen<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve been thinking about why I like these old movies so much and now I realize it\u2019s because they aren\u2019t hectoring me. Today\u2019s movies remind me of what Hepburn\u2019s character is at the beginning of the film: preachy, humorless, ridiculous, and barren. Even Frozen 2, whose biggest audience is aged 3, reads like a syllabus in a course titled \u201cThe Evils of Whiteness and Colonialism\u201d at some rich-kid college.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bonus quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh, I hate \u201chigh-brow\u201d movies. The pretentiousness makes me vomit. A movie should do nothing but entertain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarissa, on The African Queen: I\u2019ve been thinking about why I like these old movies so much and now I realize it\u2019s because they aren\u2019t hectoring me. Today\u2019s movies remind me of what Hepburn\u2019s character is at the beginning of the film: preachy, humorless, ridiculous, and barren. Even Frozen 2, whose biggest audience is aged &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-23\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today&#8217;s quote&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-uZm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119125,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119124\/revisions\/119125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}