{"id":313,"date":"2008-07-19T02:08:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T08:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2008-07-19T02:08:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T08:08:49","slug":"why-so-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Why So Serious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Date Night, Jenny and I went to an afternoon showing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0468569\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Dark Knight<\/a>, the much-hyped new Batman movie by Christopher Nolan. It was AWESOME. For me, among many great elements, the standout was definitely the late Heath Ledger&#8217;s amazingly creepy performance as The Joker. I loved Jack Nicholson&#8217;s Joker from 1989, but Ledger&#8217;s is much darker and adds the nuances, reptilian mannerisms, and icy voice needed to elevate The Joker from a cartoon to a real person. I want to see the movie again just to watch Ledger at his best. I&#8217;ll jump on the bandwagon and predict a posthumous Oscar nomination for him, and possibly even a win. He&#8217;s that good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Date Night, Jenny and I went to an afternoon showing of The Dark Knight, the much-hyped new Batman movie by Christopher Nolan. It was AWESOME. For me, among many great elements, the standout was definitely the late Heath Ledger&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=313\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}