{"id":216893498,"date":"2011-10-22T19:41:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T06:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216893498"},"modified":"2011-10-22T19:41:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T06:41:52","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216893498","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night At The Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the father of four females and the husband of a fifth, my ability to influence prime time viewing in our house is somewhat limited, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>At one end of the televisual spectrum is surfeit of SPCA inspector \/ model \/ singer \/ designer \/ cook \/ doctor \/ customs dog handler reality fare. \u00a0At the other end of that spectrum is the seemingly unending geyser of imported rites of passage, &#8216;good vs evil&#8217; movies. \u00a0These invariably feature a multi-cultural teenage\u00a0dance crew\/cheerleader squad\/football team (who are secret either witches or superheroes) battling to save the world from sparkly vampires, t-shirtless werewolves or plain ol&#8217; baddies aided by bespectacled boys, talking animals and cameos who should know better.<\/p>\n<p>It is for this reason that, while reading\u00a0this week&#8217;s TV Guide just now,\u00a0I laughed out loud upon reading the following superbly acerbic movie review.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"IMG_0280.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_0280.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG 0280\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clearly, I am not alone in my misery but I think the reviewer&#8217;s pain threshold is higher then mine, as I would definitely question the two-stars (<em>FAIR<\/em>) rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the father of four females and the husband of a fifth, my ability to influence prime time viewing in our house is somewhat limited, to say the least. At one end of the televisual spectrum is surfeit of SPCA inspector \/ model \/ singer \/ designer \/ cook \/ doctor \/ customs dog handler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,6,29],"tags":[556,557,558],"class_list":["post-216893498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-humour","category-images","tag-movies","tag-sabrina-the-teenage-witch","tag-tvguide"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216893498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216893499,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893498\/revisions\/216893499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216893498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216893498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216893498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}