{"id":5385,"date":"2004-03-24T09:16:09","date_gmt":"2004-03-24T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/03\/24\/passionate.html"},"modified":"2004-03-24T09:16:09","modified_gmt":"2004-03-24T16:16:09","slug":"passionate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/03\/24\/passionate.html","title":{"rendered":"Passionate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monty Python is rereleasing <a title=\"CNN.com - Python's 'Life of Brian' to be re-issued - Mar 24, 2004\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/03\/24\/film.brian.reut\/index.html\"><i>The Life of Brian<\/i><\/a>, both to cash in on and counter-program for the Gibson <i>Passion <\/i>mania.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when Brian came out, when I was in college.  Doubtless we&#8217;ll get the same sort of blasphemy accusations now as we got then.  And doubtless both the movie and the foofoorah will be just as entertaining, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monty Python is rereleasing The Life of Brian, both to cash in on and counter-program for the Gibson Passion mania. 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