{"id":40,"date":"2002-10-19T21:17:53","date_gmt":"2002-10-20T01:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=40"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"avoid_the_ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2002\/10\/19\/avoid_the_ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid The Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"From the reviews I had read, I expected <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0298130\">The Ring<\/a> to be good. People were saying it was the best in its genre since <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0167404\">The Sixth Sense<\/a>. One IMDB user writes, &ldquo;Never have I seen a film that has affected me so.&rdquo; I found it <i>boring<\/i>, though thankfully it didn&rsquo;t drag on as long as the similarly engaging <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0120737\">Fellowship of the Ring<\/a>. David Dorfman&rsquo;s precocious &ldquo;Aiden&rdquo; was entertaining, but the parents didn&rsquo;t live up to their billing. Brian Cox has been in far better films, like <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0128445\">Rushmore<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0091474\">Manhunter<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the reviews I had read, I expected The Ring to be good. People were saying it was the best in its genre since The Sixth Sense. One IMDB user writes, &ldquo;Never have I seen a film that has affected me so.&rdquo; I found it boring, though thankfully it didn&rsquo;t drag on as long as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}