{"id":33155,"date":"2013-04-12T11:01:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T17:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/a-funny-roger-ebert-story.html"},"modified":"2013-04-13T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T14:55:34","slug":"a-funny-roger-ebert-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/a-funny-roger-ebert-story.html","title":{"rendered":"A funny Roger Ebert story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">No, actually, it is pretty funny.<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_296w\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2013\/04\/11\/Outlook\/Images\/2267573.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/a-story-that-makes-roger-ebert-look-bad-too-soon\/2013\/04\/11\/0b622ae8-a21c-11e2-9c03-6952ff305f35_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop'>A story that could make Roger Ebert look bad. Too soon?<\/a><br \/>\n                                                When can I talk about Roger and Me?\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'><span class='gpb-reshare'><br \/>This post has been reshared 2 times on <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/WS39heTwmyk' target='_new'>Google+<\/a><br \/><\/span> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/WS39heTwmyk' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, actually, it is pretty funny. A story that could make Roger Ebert look bad. Too soon? When can I talk about Roger and Me? This post has been reshared 2 times on Google+ View this post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,12,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-fourth-estate","category-media-performers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33091,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/05\/roger-ebert-and-the-mean-reviews.html","url_meta":{"origin":33155,"position":0},"title":"Roger Ebert and the Mean Reviews","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 5-Apr-13 8:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Ebert was famous (infamous in some circles) for being more forgiving of some mass entertainment films if he thought they were fun (as he put it in his review of The Mummy, \"There is a little immaturity stuck away in the crannies of even the most judicious of us, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33080,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/and-another-review-from-roger-ebert.html","url_meta":{"origin":33155,"position":1},"title":"And another review from Roger Ebert","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Apr-13 7:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This one from +The Onion. \u00a0Cool.Reshared post from +Shannon TurlingtonThis made me tear up a little, and it's from +The Onion . 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