{"id":2069,"date":"2002-05-14T11:34:48","date_gmt":"2002-05-14T18:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2002-05-14T11:34:48","modified_gmt":"2002-05-14T18:34:48","slug":"high-praise-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2002\/05\/14\/high-praise-indeed\/","title":{"rendered":"High Praise Indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out <a href='http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/eo\/20020513\/en_movies_eo\/9946'>this E! news story<\/a> about the almost universal (ha!) drubbing that &#8220;Star Wars:  Attack of the Clones&#8221; is receiving.  I especially like this paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To be fair, not all of the early-bird Clones reviews are bad &#8230; [Peter] Travers [of Rolling Stone]  rates it as the third-best Star Wars flick, which is pretty high praise considering his first two picks are the  near-impossible-to-top The Empire Strikes Back and the original film. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What, getting ranked <i>lower<\/i> than good movies qualifies as &#8220;high praise&#8221; now?   How about &#8220;Roger Ebert said that he would rank <i>Jason X<\/i> lower than either <i>Citizen Kane<\/i> or <i>Casablanca<\/i>, which is pretty high praise considering how well regarded those two films are.&#8221;  And just for future reference, &#8220;better than <i>Return of the Jedi<\/i>&#8221; is not exactly a ringing endorsement either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this E! news story about the almost universal (ha!) drubbing that &#8220;Star Wars: Attack of the Clones&#8221; is receiving. I especially like this paragraph: To be fair, not all of the early-bird Clones reviews are bad &#8230; [Peter] Travers [of Rolling Stone] rates it as the third-best Star Wars flick, which is pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}