{"id":2782,"date":"2012-09-03T09:45:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T14:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/blog\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2012-09-03T09:45:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T14:45:35","slug":"purgatorial-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/03\/purgatorial-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Purgatorial form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best description of screenwriting I&rsquo;ve ever read:<\/p>\n<p>&laquo; The problem with screenplays is there&rsquo;s rarely an end product. They&rsquo;re just blueprints. That&rsquo;s all they are. If they&rsquo;re not made into movies, that&rsquo;s all they are, this purgatorial form called &laquo; screenplay &raquo;. And you can go from one blueprint after another after another and then draft after draft &#8211; but it&rsquo;s kind of like fantasizing about sex rather than experiencing it. &raquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rexpickett.com\/\" title=\"Official web site for Rex Pickett\">Rex Pickett<\/a>, novelist (Sideways) and screenwriter, quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/backstory.net\/\">Backstory<\/a> (iPad magazine).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best description of screenwriting I&rsquo;ve ever read: &laquo; The problem with screenplays is there&rsquo;s rarely an end product. They&rsquo;re just blueprints. That&rsquo;s all they are. If they&rsquo;re not made into movies, that&rsquo;s all they are, this purgatorial form called &laquo; screenplay &raquo;. And you can go from one blueprint after another after&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/03\/purgatorial-form\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Purgatorial form<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782"}],"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=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2784,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions\/2784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}