{"id":3594,"date":"2005-08-28T02:38:05","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T09:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/08\/28\/blowing-smoke\/"},"modified":"2005-08-28T02:38:05","modified_gmt":"2005-08-28T09:38:05","slug":"blowing-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/28\/blowing-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowing Smoke out your ass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWhat would happen if somebody made a really, really bad movie and instead of showing it in theaters before selling it on DVD, they just skipped the movie house phase completely and sold it direct to consumers with a blog as a marketing tool?  I suppose some people would buy it just to support the experiment, but they would be suckers. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blowingsmokethemovie.com\/\">Blowing Smoke<\/a> totally sucks. It features cliched dialog, wooden acting, a plot that&#8217;s so predictable you can see the climax at the first sign of life, feeble man-hating, and a breast count of zero. Joe Bob says save your money. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re inclined to purchase just because you like <a href=\"http:\/\/jimtreacher.com\/\">Jim Treacher&#8217;s blog<\/a>, then cut out the middle-man and give your money to him direct. You&#8217;ll add 90 minutes to your life.<\/p>\n<p>(PS: The last five minutes was excellent.)\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would happen if somebody made a really, really bad movie and instead of showing it in theaters before selling it on DVD, they just skipped the movie house phase completely and sold it direct to consumers with a blog as a marketing tool? I suppose some people would buy it just to support the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/28\/blowing-smoke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blowing Smoke out your ass&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-VY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}