{"id":9,"date":"2002-11-12T19:43:30","date_gmt":"2002-11-12T19:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=9"},"modified":"2002-11-12T19:43:30","modified_gmt":"2002-11-12T19:43:30","slug":"returned-with-plunder-from-the-video-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/9","title":{"rendered":"Returned with plunder from the video store."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ducked out to Best Buy with David Seitzinger this afternoon and picked up my own copy of <i>The Lord of the Rings.<\/i>  Wonderful.  Absolutely, positively wonderful.  The extended edition is a little slower to get going, as it spends more time in the Shire, but that really reinforces your idea of what these people are fighting to defend.  And the documentaries &#150; <i>five hours&#8217; worth<\/i> of documentaries &#150; are so far really nice.  And I bought the four-disc version, not the five-disc one.  Heh.<\/P><P>I did <i>not,<\/i> however, buy <i>Star Wars: Episode II.<\/i>  I couldn&#8217;t think of any really great scenes in <i>Episode II,<\/i> save for the lightsaber battle at the end, versus the nonstop series of great moments that make up <i>The Lord of the Rings.<\/i>  Even at three hours and eighteen minutes (the length of the extended edition), <i>Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings<\/i> goes much faster than <i>Episode II.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Of course, it helps that I consider myself to have far more hobbitish inclinations than Jedi-ish ones.  Now, where&#8217;s my pipe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ducked out to Best Buy with David Seitzinger this afternoon and picked up my own copy of The Lord of the Rings. Wonderful. Absolutely, positively wonderful. The extended edition is a little slower to get going, as it spends more time in the Shire, but that really reinforces your idea of what these people are [&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-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-tip-of-the-quill"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-9","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}