{"id":228,"date":"2009-03-31T19:39:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T00:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efsavage.com\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2009-08-06T21:25:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T02:25:16","slug":"52-word-review-watchmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/52-word-review-watchmen\/","title":{"rendered":"52 Word Review: Watchmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/watchmen.png\" alt=\"watchmen\" title=\"watchmen\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"soloShot alignright size-full wp-image-231\" \/>Watchmen is an adaptation of a comic series that should have been longer into a movie that should have been shorter.  Action was slick and acting was much better than expected, but the story preserved the uneven pacing of the source rather than remedying it.  A noble and ambitious attempt with mediocre results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watchmen is an adaptation of a comic series that should have been longer into a movie that should have been shorter. Action was slick and acting was much better than expected, but the story preserved the uneven pacing of the source rather than remedying it. A noble and ambitious attempt with mediocre results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[39,70],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1AkJt-3G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}