{"id":96,"date":"2006-03-04T08:53:02","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T08:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/04\/golden-grouches\/"},"modified":"2006-03-04T08:53:02","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T08:53:02","slug":"golden-grouches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/04\/golden-grouches\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Grouches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>Seed<\/cite> is meeting their contractual obligation as members of the American media by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedmagazine.com\/news\/2006\/03\/the_seed_oscars.php\">offering some science-based Oscars<\/a>. This is a rare year in which I really don&#8217;t care at all about the actual awards. I haven&#8217;t seen any of the movies nominated for Best Picture, and I don&#8217;t really have much interest in seeing any of them. The only reason I&#8217;ll watch any of the telecast is to see what Jon Stewart does (my prediction: he&#8217;ll be terrifically funny to his usual audience (liberal bloggers), and will completely lose the septuagenarian demographic that is the primary target for the Oscar telecast, and he&#8217;ll never be asked to do it again. Sort of like Steve Martin a few years back.). <\/p>\n<p>As such, I probably wouldn&#8217;t bother to hype the <cite>Seed<\/cite> article, either, but they solicted comments from the various ScienceBloggers, and quoted several of us, including me (page three of the article). I said some mean things about <cite>Serenity<\/cite>, so I half expect death threats from Whedon junkies. Anyway, if you want to yell at me for dissing Joss&#8217;s knowledge of astrophysics, here&#8217;s a convenient comment thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seed is meeting their contractual obligation as members of the American media by offering some science-based Oscars. This is a rare year in which I really don&#8217;t care at all about the actual awards. I haven&#8217;t seen any of the movies nominated for Best Picture, and I don&#8217;t really have much interest in seeing any&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/04\/golden-grouches\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Golden Grouches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}