{"id":430,"date":"2009-07-27T22:19:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T06:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=430"},"modified":"2009-07-27T22:19:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T06:19:20","slug":"day-166-quantum-of-what-ace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"Day 166: quantum of what-ace?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie and I just watched Quantum of Solace, which was a relatively enjoyable experience.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it\u2019s just late and I\u2019m tired, but I\u2019m not sure I got everything.&#160; The movie seems to be a series of action sequences separated by bursts of exposition and plot, which makes it a bit hard to actually tell what is truly occurring in the overarching story.<\/p>\n<p>Or am I just dense?&#160; I don\u2019t remember Bond movies being this hard to follow, although I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the overall plot so much as the details, which seem ever-so-important in the way the actors say them but don\u2019t seem to actually <em>be<\/em> important.<\/p>\n<p>What is the Quantum of Solace?&#160; Why are all these different groups of people trying to kill James Bond?&#160; When did he turn into a hand-to-hand Jason Bourne-esque assassin instead of a gadget driven agent?<\/p>\n<p>I liked it, but I fear I will go to bed tonight a bit confused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie and I just watched Quantum of Solace, which was a relatively enjoyable experience. Perhaps it\u2019s just late and I\u2019m tired, but I\u2019m not sure I got everything.&#160; The movie seems to be a series of action sequences separated by bursts of exposition and plot, which makes it a bit hard to actually tell what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-movie","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}