{"id":5210,"date":"2009-08-06T21:55:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T02:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5210"},"modified":"2009-08-06T22:03:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T03:03:07","slug":"not-that-i-condone-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5210","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Not that I condone fascism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;or any -ism for that matter. -Ism&#8217;s in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.&#8221; Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I&#8217;d still have to bum rides off people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000455\/\">John Hughes<\/a>, who produced one of my all-time favorite movies, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091042\/\"><em>Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off<\/em><\/a>, died today at age 59.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093748\/\"><em>Planes Trains and Automobiles<\/em><\/a> (&#8220;Those aren&#8217;t pillows!&#8221;) is one of the few movies that makes you cry almost as hard as you laughed &#8211; same as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0099785\/\">Home Alone<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0098554\/\">Uncle Buck<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes didn&#8217;t just make movies in the 80&#8217;s. He <em>made <\/em>the 80&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>I would have liked to see what he and John Candy would be doing now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;or any -ism for that matter. -Ism&#8217;s in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.&#8221; Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I&#8217;d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}