{"id":8595,"date":"2013-12-30T17:40:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T16:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=8595"},"modified":"2013-12-30T17:40:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T16:40:33","slug":"life-is-pain-highness-anyone-who-says-differently-is-reviewing-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/12\/life-is-pain-highness-anyone-who-says-differently-is-reviewing-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is reviewing something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While browsing Amazon for a region 2 version of The Princess Bride, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/review\/R1JBMKAZUYQG53\/\">this review stood out<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I rented this because it got such good reviews, but oh dear&#8230;. My eleven-year-old twins wanted to know when the fighting would begin, they found the constant swopping back to the little boy with his grandfather deeply annoying, and their attention definitely wandered. I have to say I found it an incredibly long film. Yes, there were moments of humour &#8211; which my twins enjoyed &#8211; but that ratty creature&#8230;. Talk about naff special effects, and &#8211; plot spoiler here &#8211; my twins were disgusted that the villain didn&#8217;t die. Not a film we&#8217;d ever want to watch again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The comments on the review are worth the price of admission&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While browsing Amazon for a region 2 version of The Princess Bride, this review stood out: I rented this because it got such good reviews, but oh dear&#8230;. My eleven-year-old twins wanted to know when the fighting would begin, they found the constant swopping back to the little boy with his grandfather deeply annoying, and their attention definitely wandered. I have to say I found it an incredibly long film. Yes, there were moments of humour &#8211; which my twins enjoyed &#8211; but that ratty creature&#8230;. Talk about naff special effects, and &#8211; plot spoiler here &#8211; my twins were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,576],"tags":[167,2233,574,445,678],"class_list":["post-8595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-mainstream-media","tag-amazon","tag-dvd","tag-fail","tag-review","tag-the-princess-bride","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2eD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}