{"id":491,"date":"2006-06-12T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2006-06-12T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T19:33:00","slug":"consumed-and-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Consumed and Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been fairly Consumed with Important Things of late.<\/p>\n<p>But, by far the most important is that weeRocket, <lj user=steakums> and I went to see Pixar&#8217;s newest, <i>Cars<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I had heard the reviews were bad, that the kids&#8217;ll like it, but it will fall flat for the adults.  I had heard rumors that it was going to be Pixar&#8217;s first flop.  I wouldn&#8217;t have faulted Pixar for it.  Everyone stumbles.<\/p>\n<p>The plot looked weak, basically a remake of <i>Doc Hollywood<\/i> except with cars.<\/p>\n<p>But the fact of the matter is&#8230; I thought it <i>rocked<\/i>.   I laughed out loud a <i>lot<\/i>.  I even teared up at the end.  And I have little interest in cars or car racing.<\/p>\n<p>The thing I should&#8217;ve realized is that none of the Pixar plots are really revolutionary.  It&#8217;s all in how they tell the story.<\/p>\n<p>And man, they can tell a story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been fairly Consumed with Important Things of late. But, by far the most important is that weeRocket, and I went to see Pixar&#8217;s newest, Cars. I had heard the reviews were bad, that the kids&#8217;ll like it, but it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=491\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[132],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}