{"id":1667,"date":"2007-10-03T21:02:31","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T02:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/03\/oily-back-story\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T21:02:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T02:02:31","slug":"oily-back-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/03\/oily-back-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Oily back story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/feature\/thekingdom.html?showVideo=1\">opening title sequence<\/a> of the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0431197\/\">The Kingdom<\/a> (don&rsquo;t worry, there&rsquo;s no spoiler). It manages to explain the history of U.S. involvement in Saudi Arabia under 4 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p><em>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/johnaugust.com\/archives\/2007\/kingdom-credits\">John August<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the opening title sequence of the movie The Kingdom (don&rsquo;t worry, there&rsquo;s no spoiler). It manages to explain the history of U.S. involvement in Saudi Arabia under 4 minutes. Wow. Via John August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}