{"id":12898,"date":"2014-12-21T14:41:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T19:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=12898"},"modified":"2014-12-22T23:10:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T04:10:22","slug":"hollywood-juche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/hollywood-juche\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Juche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sony.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sony-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"Lose a little weight, kid\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12899\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sony-480x640.jpg 480w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/sony.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m slightly relieved that <i><b>The Interview<\/b><\/i> won&#8217;t be coming to theaters near me. ((It&#8217;s not really a great concern, though \u2014 there aren&#8217;t any theaters near me.)) It&#8217;s one less failed comedy to avoid. Still, I&#8217;m just a wee bit uneasy about <a href=\"https:\/\/ricochet.com\/kim-jong-un-host-87th-annual-oscars\/\" target=\"_blank\">possible consequences<\/a>.  I&#8217;m not entirely sure that a <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2014\/12\/18\/12-pictures-of-kim-jong-un-looking-super-intimidating\/\" target=\"_blank\">chubby North Korean with a bad haircut<\/a> is the ideal guide for western culture, even if his daddy was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/asia\/kim-jong-il-the-tyrant-with-a-passion-for-wine-women-and-the-bomb-421016.html\" target=\"_blank\">wacky Daffy Duck aficionado<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I should investigate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/395049\/no-superheroes-interview-cave-jonah-goldberg\" target=\"_blank\">the early history of Captain America<\/a>. I did order a copy of <strong><em>Team America<\/em><\/strong> for my library, lest that also be withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/korea.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/korea-640x640.jpg\" alt=\"The two Koreas\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12900\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/korea.jpg 640w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/korea-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m slightly relieved that The Interview won&#8217;t be coming to theaters near me. ((It&#8217;s not really a great concern, though \u2014 there aren&#8217;t any theaters near me.)) It&#8217;s one less failed comedy to avoid. Still, I&#8217;m just a wee bit uneasy about possible consequences. I&#8217;m not entirely sure that a chubby North Korean with a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/hollywood-juche\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hollywood Juche&#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":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-decline-and-fall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-3m2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898","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=12898"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12924,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898\/revisions\/12924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}