{"id":84,"date":"2008-02-16T18:41:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T23:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2008-02-16T18:41:15","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T23:41:15","slug":"three-funerals-and-a-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Three funerals and a wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three days in a row now I have gone with a different friend to see something that turns out to have a dark and despairing view of individual fates and the relationships between people.  On Thursday it was Pinter&#8217;s <i>The Homecoming<\/i>, last night was <i>No Country for Old Men<\/i>, and then this afternoon was a European puppet show <i>Fabrik<\/i> about a nice Jewish guy who ends up exterminated by the Nazis.  At least the puppet show had singing and dancing.<\/p>\n<p>So this evening I cleanse my palette.  I am off now to see <i>Definitely, Maybe<\/i>, because sometimes you just have to get off your cultural high horse and take in a good romantic comedy.<\/p>\n<p>Know what I mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three days in a row now I have gone with a different friend to see something that turns out to have a dark and despairing view of individual fates and the relationships between people. On Thursday it was Pinter&#8217;s The Homecoming, last night was No Country for Old Men, and then this afternoon was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=84\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Three funerals and a wedding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}