{"id":1156,"date":"2008-04-10T08:50:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T15:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2008\/04\/comic_distractions_for_a_thurs\/"},"modified":"2008-04-10T08:50:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T15:50:24","slug":"comic_distractions_for_a_thurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/comic_distractions_for_a_thurs.php","title":{"rendered":"Comic distractions for a Thursday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who haven&#8217;t watched the Ricky Gervais BBC\/HBO series &#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/extras\/\">Extras<\/a>&#8221; missed a brilliantly self-mocking comedic turn by Sir Ian McKellen, describing the secrets to his acting technique: &#8221;What I do is pretend to be the person I am portraying in the film or play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Idiotic and compelling all at once. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/extras\/episode\/season2\/episode11.html\">Full episode info here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nyoWmkhRyp8&#038;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nyoWmkhRyp8&#038;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who haven&#8217;t watched the Ricky Gervais BBC\/HBO series &#8221;Extras&#8221; missed a brilliantly self-mocking comedic turn by Sir Ian McKellen, describing the secrets to his acting technique: &#8221;What I do is pretend to be the person I am portraying in the film or play.&#8221; Idiotic and compelling all at once. (Full episode info here.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}