{"id":365,"date":"2007-11-30T21:05:21","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T04:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=365"},"modified":"2007-11-30T21:05:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T04:05:21","slug":"new-media-polar-express-incongruity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/11\/new-media-polar-express-incongruity\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW MEDIA: Polar Express &#8211; Incongruity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">W<\/span>ell that&#8217;s rather dopey: the silent little boy picked up last from the other side of the tracks is singing by himself on the back of the train.&nbsp; He&#8217;s singing a very soulful sad Christmas song about how he&#8217;s never had a Christmas.&nbsp; The little girl goes out and joins him in singing, but her version is about how all the children get presents and how wonderful Christmas is.&nbsp; The poor kid keeps responding with &quot;that I&#8217;ve never seen&quot; type of stuff.&nbsp; Now what made the writers think that this little interaction was going to make the kid feel any better?<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t.&nbsp; He doesn&#8217;t get off the train when they arrive.&nbsp; Going with my religion theory here, does he represent those who have no reason to believe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">W<\/span>ell that&#8217;s rather dopey: the silent little boy picked up last from the other side of the tracks is singing by himself on the back of the train.&nbsp; He&#8217;s singing a very soulful sad Christmas song about how he&#8217;s never had a Christmas.&nbsp; The little girl goes out and joins him in singing, but her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}