{"id":11946,"date":"2017-09-18T23:33:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T23:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=11946"},"modified":"2017-09-18T23:33:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T23:33:04","slug":"moneyball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2017\/09\/18\/moneyball\/","title":{"rendered":"Moneyball [2011]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watched Moneyball a few weeks ago- had always wanted to get into it because of the statistics\/disruption angle, but hesitated because I don&#8217;t know shit about baseball. Took the leap after discovering that it was Sorkin&#8217;s dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>I especially enjoyed the portrayal of the media and how it&#8217;s quick to jump to conclusions (ie &#8220;wet roads cause rain&#8221;) and how the protagonist dealt with all the frustrations of knowing you&#8217;re right when the world thinks you&#8217;re wrong, and when even that&#8217;s not good enough. Recommend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Watched Moneyball a few weeks ago- had always wanted to get into it because of the statistics\/disruption angle, but hesitated because I don&#8217;t know shit about baseball. Took the leap after discovering that it was Sorkin&#8217;s dialogue. I especially enjoyed the portrayal of the media and how it&#8217;s quick&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[827],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-36G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}