{"id":91,"date":"2005-10-30T23:40:52","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T06:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=91"},"modified":"2005-10-30T23:40:52","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T06:40:52","slug":"awful-just-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Awful.  Just awful."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was just a lazy Sunday afternoon.  Pam and I had just dropped my fantastic daughter at ballet rehearsal, and decided a movie would be good.  Maybe I just thought it would be good.  Maybe the cast seemed like it could carry it.  But probably, it was because my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidgagne.net\/?p=5989\">buddy<\/a> said it was terrible, and I didn&#8217;t believe him.<\/p>\n<p>I owe him an apology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0399146\/\">A History of Violence<\/a> is quite possibly the biggest piece of CRAP I have ever seen.  EVER.  Loose ends, HIDEOUS dialog, and pointless character development (the opening scene went on FOREVER and meant NOTHING to the film) were just a sampling of the misery.  David is right &#8211; find something else to do.<\/p>\n<p>If it taught me anything, it&#8217;s this:  it is very possible to keep running top speed without admitting you might be on the wrong path &#8211; all because your ego is WAY too big.  Hmm.  Sounds like someone that used to be my boss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was just a lazy Sunday afternoon. Pam and I had just dropped my fantastic daughter at ballet rehearsal, and decided a movie would be good. Maybe I just thought it would be good. Maybe the cast seemed like it could carry it. But probably, it was because my buddy said it was terrible, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kellybakst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}