{"id":193,"date":"2003-03-14T00:49:46","date_gmt":"2003-03-14T00:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=193"},"modified":"2003-03-14T00:49:46","modified_gmt":"2003-03-14T00:49:46","slug":"adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/193","title":{"rendered":"Adaptation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So on Wednesday night, my friend <A href=\"..\/..\/biographies\/graye.php\">Evangeline<\/a> and I went to go see <i>Adaptation,<\/i> the new-ish film by Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman, the oddballs behind <i>Being John Malkovich.<\/i>  I am not allowed to watch those kinds of movies.  See, <i>Adaptation<\/i> stars Nic Cage as an overweight, neurotic screenwriter caught in a self-destructive downward spiral.  &#8220;OK, here we go, ready to write.  How to start, how to start?  I should get coffee.  Coffee would help me think.  No, I need to write, then I can reward myself with coffee&#8230;&#8221;  I found myself slouching in my theater chair and thinking furiously, <i>Damn, these people have me sussed.<\/i><\/P><P>Oh, well.  All in all, a pretty decent movie.  Odd, but decent.  And now I can read Kottke&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanorlean.com\/adaptation\/\">Regarding: Adaptation<\/a> blog without fear of spoilers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So on Wednesday night, my friend Evangeline and I went to go see Adaptation, the new-ish film by Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman, the oddballs behind Being John Malkovich. I am not allowed to watch those kinds of movies. See, Adaptation stars Nic Cage as an overweight, neurotic screenwriter caught in a self-destructive downward spiral. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-tip-of-the-quill"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-37","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}