{"id":663,"date":"2006-12-06T11:17:59","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T16:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2006\/12\/question_of_the_morning\/"},"modified":"2006-12-06T11:17:59","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T16:17:59","slug":"question_of_the_morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2006\/12\/question_of_the_morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Question of the morning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, if you had to guess based on last night&#8217;s show, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0815070\/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8ZmI9dXxwbj0wfHE9YWFyb24gc29ya2lufGh0bWw9MXxubT0x;fc=1;ft=20\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Sorkin<\/A> Protestant or Jewish? SKL says Protestant, since Jews already know all that abstruse Christian arcanae. (Matthew Perry sure ain&#8217;t Jewish.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womendontask.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> SKL<\/A> thinks the problem is direction, too many overplayed expressions, telegraphed emotions, they need to learn how to throw away their lines. I say it&#8217;s in the script, a good example of how terrific performers try to prop up weak material&#8230; looks worse because it exposes the poor writing rather than props it up. Would somebody please shut down Ed Asner?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, if you had to guess based on last night&#8217;s show, is Aaron Sorkin Protestant or Jewish? SKL says Protestant, since Jews already know all that abstruse Christian arcanae. (Matthew Perry sure ain&#8217;t Jewish.) SKL thinks the problem is direction, too many overplayed expressions, telegraphed emotions, they need to learn how to throw away their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}