{"id":186,"date":"2007-09-11T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/akiranelson.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2010-09-03T15:00:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T22:00:53","slug":"the-waters-what-waters-were-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akiranelson.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The waters? What waters? We&#8217;re in the desert.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw\u00a0<strong>Casablanca<\/strong> at the midnight showing at the Inwood this past weekend.\u00a0 God Damn is that a great movie.\u00a0 It was truly an amazing experience seeing it projected on a big screen as I have only ever seen it on a TV.\u00a0 There is just so much to love about this movie, the witty repartee between Rick and Captain Renault, the awesome music, the quirky supporting characters, etc. etc.\u00a0 I do have to say, the only thing that bugs me about the movie is the character Yvonne (Rick&#8217;s fuck buddy essentially). Her character is shrill and made essentially to be a whore, but she does have the redeeming characteristic of being the setup for the line by Capt. Renault: &#8220;How extravagant you are, throwing away women like that. Some day they may be scarce.&#8221; Claude Raines as Capt. Renault is quite possibly my favorite movie character ever.\u00a0 This movie is so ingrained within me that I can pretty much remember all the music cues and nearly all of the script.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw\u00a0Casablanca at the midnight showing at the Inwood this past weekend.\u00a0 God Damn is that a great movie.\u00a0 It was truly an amazing experience seeing it projected on a big screen as I have only ever seen it on a TV.\u00a0 There is just so much to love about this movie, the witty repartee [&hellip;]<\/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-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akiranelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akiranelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akiranelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akiranelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akiranelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/akiranelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/akiranelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akiranelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akiranelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akiranelson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}