{"id":703,"date":"2009-07-21T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=703"},"modified":"2009-07-21T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T19:57:00","slug":"the-metaphors-some-people-think-of-are-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"The metaphors some people think of are scary&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gods, here&#8217;s an evocative image for you&#8211;from <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/15\/movies\/15harry.html\" target=\"_blank\">Manohla Dargis&#8217; review<\/a> of <em>Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince<\/em> in the <em>New York Times<\/em> (which review I do not agree with, by the way):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230; the sensational Alan Rickman, who invests his character, Prof. Severus Snape, with much-needed ambiguity, drawing each word out with exquisite luxury, bringing to mind a buzzard lazily pulling at entrails&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um&#8230;ewwwwwwww? But at the same time, thinking of some of Rickman&#8217;s juicier line deliveries, yeah, spot on.<\/p>\n<p>I saw the movie Sunday night and I was utterly blown away. Best HP movie yet. IMHO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gods, here&#8217;s an evocative image for you&#8211;from Manohla Dargis&#8217; review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in the New York Times (which review I do not agree with, by the way): &#8220;&#8230; the sensational Alan Rickman, who invests his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=703\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}