{"id":2972,"date":"2009-06-08T11:14:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T16:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2009-06-08T11:14:48","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T16:14:48","slug":"at-least-we-didnt-go-into-tashi-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=2972","title":{"rendered":"At Least We Didn&#8217;t Go Into Tashi Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, to celebrate its decade anniversary, we watched <i>Star Wars Episode I<\/i> with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifftrax.com\/rifftrax\/star-wars-episode-i-phantom-menace\">accomanying Rifftrax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t watched it all the way through in ten years. Holy cow, I&#8217;d forgotten how bad it was. It&#8217;s like those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-isb.com\/?p=1669\">Anita Blake comics where nothing happens<\/a>. Even with part of the old MST3k crew making jokes I could barely sit through it, and even Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy were reduced to shouting, &#8220;Will you just shut the hell up?&#8221; every time Jar-Jar opened his mouth.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m undecided: is the movie worse than the two Matrix sequels? The Matrix sequels take longer, but they didn&#8217;t squander two decades of goodwill in fifteen seconds flat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, to celebrate its decade anniversary, we watched Star Wars Episode I with the accomanying Rifftrax. I hadn&#8217;t watched it all the way through in ten years. Holy cow, I&#8217;d forgotten how bad it was. It&#8217;s like those Anita Blake comics where nothing happens. Even with part of the old MST3k crew making jokes I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=2972\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">At Least We Didn&#8217;t Go Into Tashi Station<\/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-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","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=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2974,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}