{"id":666492,"date":"2010-02-15T20:31:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T01:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-15-me-babbling-on-the-radio-about-fantastic-mr.-fox\/"},"modified":"2010-02-15T20:31:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T01:31:16","slug":"me-babbling-on-the-radio-about-fantastic-mr-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/666492","title":{"rendered":"Me, babbling on the radio about &#8216;Fantastic Mr. Fox&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Tom Philpott <\/p>\n<p>You read the <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/2010-01-21-why-you-should-go-see-fantastic-mr.-fox\">first post<\/a>; then you read the <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-02-oscar-smiles-upon-food-inc-stiffs-mr.-fox\/\">second post<\/a>. But admit it: you still haven&#8217;t heard enough about why I think you should see Fantastic Mr. Fox, and why the esteemed ladies and gentlemen of the academy were putzes for stiffing it on a best picture nomination. So now you will listen to me <a href=\"http:\/\/webtalkradio.net\/2010\/02\/15\/green-patriot-radio-with-david-steinman-%E2%80%93-oscar-nominated-environmental-films-americas-national-parks-and-year-of-the-endangered-tiger\/\">babbling about Mr. Fox on Green Patriot Radio. <\/a>Since you people are still not flocking to the film&#8212;and how could you, after it was so unceremoniously dropped from the theaters after just a week or two in release&#8212;I&#8217;ll just go back to affectless moping, like one of Wes Anderson&#8217;s sad young men.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-17-katie-couric-chews-food-system-fat\/\">Katie Couric chews the food-system fat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-09-michael-pollan-video-democracy-now\/\">Michael Pollan video on Democracy Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-08-four-stories-that-should-have-changed-media-narrative\/\">Four stories that should have changed the media narrative &#8230; but didn&#8217;t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=976146da85582e5645fed5a76f93cc62&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=976146da85582e5645fed5a76f93cc62&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tom Philpott You read the first post; then you read the second post. But admit it: you still haven&#8217;t heard enough about why I think you should see Fantastic Mr. Fox, and why the esteemed ladies and gentlemen of the academy were putzes for stiffing it on a best picture nomination. So now you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":734,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NnS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}