{"id":96,"date":"2005-05-26T11:04:26","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T15:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/26\/reviews-of-pirated-chinese-dvds\/"},"modified":"2005-05-26T11:05:12","modified_gmt":"2005-05-26T15:05:12","slug":"reviews-of-pirated-chinese-dvds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/26\/reviews-of-pirated-chinese-dvds\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews of Pirated Chinese DVDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The often witty McSweeney&#8217;s gives us an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/2005\/5\/25rockleary.html\">article<\/a> titled:<br \/>\n<em><strong>REVIEWS OF DVDS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE PIRATED BUT WERE DEFINITELY BOUGHT ON THE STREET IN SHANGHAI FOR ABOUT A DOLLAR.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Team America: World Police<\/strong><br \/>\nObtained: Yan An pedestrian overpass<br \/>\nPrice: 10 RMB, but came with a coupon for &#8220;Half Off Double Happy Massage at DragonWing Men Club for Men&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amateur work throughout. We can see the edges of the bag in which the camera is hidden. But there&#8217;s also an unintentional artistry here that adds welcome layers of complexity.<\/p>\n<p>As Team America blows Egypt apart, the silhouette of a man in a cowboy hat looms in front of us in the theater. He&#8217;s probably just going for popcorn, but his exiting archetypal shadow plays like a sharp rebuke to the frontier justice being meted out on the screen. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The often witty McSweeney&#8217;s gives us an article titled: REVIEWS OF DVDS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE PIRATED BUT WERE DEFINITELY BOUGHT ON THE STREET IN SHANGHAI FOR ABOUT A DOLLAR. Team America: World Police Obtained: Yan An pedestrian overpass Price: 10 RMB, but came with a coupon for &#8220;Half Off Double Happy Massage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}