{"id":345,"date":"2006-02-24T22:49:58","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T22:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/24\/ABitOfFridayFun.aspx"},"modified":"2006-02-24T22:49:58","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T22:49:58","slug":"a-bit-of-friday-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/24\/a-bit-of-friday-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit of Friday fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Do you like movies?&nbsp; Do you like spoofs?&nbsp; Are you just tired of the hype around Brokeback Mountain?&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>If you answered yes to any of the questions above, here&#8217;s a little Friday diversion for you: check out the movie trailers for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8uwuLxrv8jY\">&#8220;Brokeback To The Future&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A-oY_dVvu70\">&#8220;Top Gun 2, Brokeback Squadron&#8221;<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P>I found the pointers to these clips in <A href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5200607\">a great NPR&nbsp;article on&nbsp;spoof movie&nbsp;trailers<\/A> (and for you etymologysts, it has&nbsp;an interesting&nbsp;little sidebar on the origin of the word &#8220;satire&#8221;).&nbsp; The NPR story links to a number of spoofs, including my favorite, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/KmkVWuP_sO0\">a trailer for a nice, uplifting comedic drama, &#8220;Shining&#8221;<\/a>.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>(note: don&#8217;t bother watching the trailers for &#8220;Big&#8221; or &#8220;Taxi Driver&#8221;, they fall short)<BR><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you like movies?&nbsp; Do you like spoofs?&nbsp; Are you just tired of the hype around Brokeback Mountain?&nbsp; If you answered yes to any of the questions above, here&#8217;s a little Friday diversion for you: check out the movie trailers for &#8220;Brokeback To The Future&#8221; and &#8220;Top Gun 2, Brokeback Squadron&#8221;.&nbsp; I found the pointers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idlemovies","category-webweird","tag-idlemovies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}