{"id":725,"date":"2004-11-23T10:59:04","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T15:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2004\/11\/23\/surf-and-sword\/"},"modified":"2004-11-23T10:59:04","modified_gmt":"2004-11-23T15:59:04","slug":"surf-and-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/23\/surf-and-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Surf and sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/catch-me-if-you-can.html\">yesterday<\/a> that I did not like fight scenes in a movie and I realized later on that it&rsquo;s not entirely true. I love fight scenes, as long as they involve some kind of kung fu and very little blood. I could never get tired of the fight scenes in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0190332\/\">Crouching Tiger<\/a>, the beautifully shot fights in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0299977\/\">Hero<\/a> and the silliness of aerial combat in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0105655\/\">The East is Red<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and surf movies. I love surf movies. No great plot, no interesting character development. Just dudes (and dudettes) surfing their hearts away. Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said yesterday that I did not like fight scenes in a movie and I realized later on that it&rsquo;s not entirely true. I love fight scenes, as long as they involve some kind of kung fu and very little blood. I could never get tired of the fight scenes in Crouching Tiger, the beautifully&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/23\/surf-and-sword\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Surf and sword<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"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=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}