{"id":171,"date":"2004-06-22T11:48:36","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T18:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/22\/i_would_never_miss_dinghies.html"},"modified":"2004-06-22T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2004-06-22T18:48:36","slug":"i_would_never_miss_dinghies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/22\/i_would_never_miss_dinghies.html","title":{"rendered":"I Would Never Miss &#8220;Dinghies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We caught <a title=\"Word Wars \" href=\"http:\/\/www.7thart.com\/wordwars\/\">Word Wars<\/a>, a <I>Spellbound<\/I> for the hypochondriac shut-ins of the world, in the screening room at the Coolidge last night.  I&#8217;m happy to see the stories that would make great movies are actually being made into movies; whether or not they&#8217;re truly great is another matter.  This was certainly entertaining, and did a great job following around four very different Scrabble? (because I have to) champions.  The medicine of choice for each player?  Maalox Max, marijuana, brain enhancers, and tai chi.  <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.7thart.com\/wordwars\/screenings_live.php\">Go see<\/A> the film to see which one works the best. My favorite line?  &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe he missed &#8216;dinghies.&#8217;  I&#8217;d never miss &#8216;dinghies.&#8217;  If you hit me over the head with a claw hammer, I wouldn&#8217;t miss &#8216;dinghies.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We caught Word Wars, a Spellbound for the hypochondriac shut-ins of the world, in the screening room at the Coolidge last night. I&#8217;m happy to see the stories that would make great movies are actually being made into movies; whether or not they&#8217;re truly great is another matter. This was certainly entertaining, and did a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}