{"id":79,"date":"2003-12-04T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-05T05:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2003-12-04T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-05T05:33:00","slug":"ok-so-im-probably-just-a-wimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"OK, so I&#8217;m probably just a wimp."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw the movie <b>Ringu<\/b><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ringu.png\">. It was creepy, but I have a hard time with movies any more. At first, all I could think was, &#8220;Why is that house so big?&#8221; Then all I could think was, &#8220;If watching a videotape was going to kill me in a week, would I watch it?&#8221; Well, maybe if it was porn, or if I was drunk.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing I don&#8217;t get is that the movie is called, <b>Ringu<\/b>. I know it&#8217;s Japanese, but in Japan, it&#8217;s called <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ringu.png\"> which is a transliteration of &#8220;Ring.&#8221; So shouldn&#8217;t it go from <b>Ring<\/b> to <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ringu.png\"> back to <b>Ring<\/b>? I thought the same thing of <b>Audition<\/b> which was advertised as <b>Audishon<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking of a line from the movie <b>Dead Man<\/b>, &#8220;Stupid ****ing white man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the movie was worth watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw the movie Ringu. It was creepy, but I have a hard time with movies any more. At first, all I could think was, &#8220;Why is that house so big?&#8221; Then all I could think was, &#8220;If watching a videotape was going to kill me in a week, would I watch it?&#8221; Well, maybe if it was porn, or if I was drunk. The other thing I don&#8217;t get is that the movie is called, Ringu. I know it&#8217;s Japanese, but in Japan, it&#8217;s called which is a transliteration of &#8220;Ring.&#8221; So shouldn&#8217;t it go from Ring to back to Ring? I thought the same thing of Audition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=79\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OK, so I&#8217;m probably just a wimp.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}