{"id":1224,"date":"2024-11-07T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2024-11-18T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T14:28:16","slug":"the-substance-thursday-november-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/07\/the-substance-thursday-november-7th\/","title":{"rendered":"The Substance. Almost as scary as our new reality."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/sub3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1230\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I&#8217;m fine. Really.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It seemed to me that it would be fun to watch this movie after all the talk talk talk of the election, and the terror of waking up to gruesome election results on Wednesday.\u00a0 The concept was to fight scary with scary. <em>The Substance<\/em> served up a heaping portion of gore and tremendous entertainment. I&#8217;m sorry it was a bit much for some of you. Watch the trailer next time! <\/p>\n<p>Our short this week was <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/393253445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Be a Lady They Said<\/em><\/a> featuring Cynthia Nixon.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, I&#8217;ll try to lighten up. A bit.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt17526714\/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seemed to me that it would be fun to watch this movie after all the talk talk talk of the election, and the terror of waking up to gruesome election results on Wednesday.\u00a0 The concept was to fight scary with scary. The Substance served up a heaping portion of gore and tremendous entertainment. I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/07\/the-substance-thursday-november-7th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Substance. Almost as scary as our new reality.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-and-life","category-movies","category-newscreen-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}