{"id":64,"date":"2006-09-05T03:01:38","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T07:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/newblog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2006-09-05T03:01:38","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T07:01:38","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"V for Vendetta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0434409\/\" target=\"_blank\">V for Vendetta<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>I rented it tonight and it&#8217;s fantastic. But that&#8217;s not the point. The point is that it&#8217;ll make you <strong>think<\/strong>. It&#8217;ll make you stop and re-evaluate many of the things that are currently happening in the world (recall that this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?title=here_ya_go&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">near and dear to me<\/a>). It&#8217;s moral stance on those things is somewhat ambiguous; it&#8217;s not trying to sell you on a political side. Which is not to say it doesn&#8217;t lean to one side &#8211; it does &#8211; but it does not leave it at all cut and dry. Nor should any film that makes a political statement. But it does &#8211; most importantly &#8211; call into question many ideas and ideals we all take for granted. Something I think <em>everyone<\/em> needs. Go see this movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go see V for Vendetta! I rented it tonight and it&#8217;s fantastic. But that&#8217;s not the point. The point is that it&#8217;ll make you think. It&#8217;ll make you stop and re-evaluate many of the things that are currently happening in the world (recall that this is near and dear to me). It&#8217;s moral stance on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}