{"id":1187,"date":"2007-11-16T12:47:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T18:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/11\/16\/if-eli-had-thoughts-on-the-writers-strike\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T12:47:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T18:47:12","slug":"if-eli-had-thoughts-on-the-writers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"If Eli Had Thoughts on the Writers&#8217; Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Hollywood writers are striking. Good for them. Instead of trying to explain the strike, I&#8217;ll point to John Rogers, who has a <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/why-strike-ii.html\">nice rundown on the reason for the strike<\/a>, as well as some <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/albatross.html\">follow-up thoughts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All of that is a lead-up to the following video, which a friend of mine pointed me to, with the comment, &#8220;For some reason, this reminded me of you and Eli.&#8221; It&#8217;s Neal &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/alternadad.com\/\">Alternadad<\/a>&#8221; Pollack and his son, Elijah, discussing the writers&#8217; strike.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qndmpyqrwG4&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qndmpyqrwG4&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For the record, I asked Eli about his position on 100-pound 100-feet-tall T. Rexes. &#8220;No. I like Darth Vader, he&#8217;s my favorite, but T. Rex and Darth Maul are not.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Hollywood writers are striking. Good for them. Instead of trying to explain the strike, I&#8217;ll point to John Rogers, who has a nice rundown on the reason for the strike, as well as some follow-up thoughts. All of that is a lead-up to the following video, which a friend of mine pointed me to, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1187\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If Eli Had Thoughts on the Writers&#8217; Strike<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}