{"id":4,"date":"2009-02-01T11:13:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T17:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2009-02-01T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T17:13:31","slug":"test-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/archives\/4","title":{"rendered":"Taken by exhaustion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the very different things between the US and other places I&#8217;ve visited is the insistence of TV advertising, that sometimes produces a spectacular counter-effect, at least in me. Take <em>Taken<\/em>, for example, the Liam Neeson action thriller that opens this weekend. By now I know everything about this movie: they kidnap his daughters, he rescues them and kills all the bad guys. I heard over and over again about his &#8220;particular set of skills&#8221;, including the sexy tone he uses on the phone; skills that he&#8217;s &#8220;acquired in years and years&#8221; of better movies and now deploys in very predictable Hollywood flicks. &#8220;Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you&#8221;: you&#8217;re right Liam, they do, also thanks to a publicity budget that probably exceeds production costs.<\/p>\n<p>I know that I&#8217;ve been watching way too much television here (always a good way to understand the local Pop culture), but I&#8217;ll keep doing that: compared to <em>Taken<\/em>, <em>Bonanza<\/em> reruns feel like Nouvelle Vague films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the very different things between the US and other places I&#8217;ve visited is the insistence of TV advertising, that sometimes produces a spectacular counter-effect, at least in me. Take Taken,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,53],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergiomessina.com\/fosforo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}