{"id":3651,"date":"2009-02-23T09:28:25","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T14:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3651"},"modified":"2009-02-23T09:28:25","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T14:28:25","slug":"a-better-oscars-by-a-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3651","title":{"rendered":"A better Oscars by a stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a headline this morning that said the Oscars suffered from bad jokes and pairings. I disagree. I thought this was one of the best Oscar shows I&#8217;ve seen and I feel the advertisers who defected were probably sorry when they actually watched the show. Hugh Jackman was a great entertainer and having the veteran actors come out in groups and present the nominees by offering accolades made for a richer presentation all the way around. <\/p>\n<p>The show was zippier and I especially loved that the President of the Academy DID NOT present &#8211; that was indeed a special moment. <\/p>\n<p>T made us Indian beef and noodles &#8230; what a prescient menu considering Slumdog took best picture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a headline this morning that said the Oscars suffered from bad jokes and pairings. I disagree. I thought this was one of the best Oscar shows I&#8217;ve seen and I feel the advertisers who defected were probably sorry when they actually watched the show. Hugh Jackman was a great entertainer and having the veteran actors come out in groups and present the nominees by offering accolades made for a richer presentation all the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-WT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}