{"id":344,"date":"2012-02-26T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:32:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:32:05","slug":"the-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/02\/26\/the-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oscars&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supposedly it&#8217;s a really big deal tonight&#8230; <strong>The Oscars <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Really? This is important?<\/p>\n<p>LA, already a nightmarish drive has been made more of a nightmare for the past week because of road closures around the Kodak theater.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people living and working in the area have been inconvenienced in major ways&#8230; and for what?<\/p>\n<p>So that the entertainment industry can pat itself on the back for movies that a dwindling theater audience actually saw? So that all the lovely train wreck &#8220;celebrities&#8221; can be trotted out of whatever rehab center they call home?<\/p>\n<p>NEXT!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just the 2 hours of sophism about the relevance and importance of the movies, it&#8217;s the hours of commentary by the &#8220;analysts&#8221; about the haut couture of every single actor or actress.<\/p>\n<p>God save us from another tired old lisping queen with a birdnest hair style telling a news staff about the inappropriate dress\/bag\/shoe combination of Lindsey Lohan.<\/p>\n<p>Just mail the award for <em>best operation of a plunger in an executive washroom<\/em> to Phil the plumber and let&#8217;s move on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supposedly it&#8217;s a really big deal tonight&#8230; The Oscars Really? This is important? LA, already a nightmarish drive has been made more of a nightmare for the past week because of road closures around the Kodak theater. Thousands of people living and working in the area have been inconvenienced in major ways&#8230; and for what? &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/02\/26\/the-oscars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Oscars&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10298,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/10298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}