{"id":6073,"date":"2015-01-31T21:48:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T02:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=6073"},"modified":"2016-10-07T17:04:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T21:04:58","slug":"argo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/argo\/","title":{"rendered":"Argo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;This is the best bad idea we have, sir. By far.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Argo<\/strong>, released in 2012<\/p>\n<p>Enraged Iranians storm the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979. Six Americans escape and end up at the Canadian ambassador&#8217;s house. They can&#8217;t stay there forever, and they can&#8217;t go out into the streets. Tony Mendez of the CIA comes up with a bold plan: make the six Americans part of the crew for a fake science fiction movie called <strong>Argo<\/strong>. Although it&#8217;s a serious situation overall, there are some fun parts. Like <strong>Apollo 13<\/strong>, even though you know the ending it&#8217;s still exciting. Ben Affleck and John Goodman star. Directed by Ben Affleck.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed Affleck&#8217;s movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/the-town\/\"><strong>The Town<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;This is the best bad idea we have, sir. By far.&#8221; Argo, released in 2012 Enraged Iranians storm the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979. Six Americans escape and end up at the Canadian ambassador&#8217;s house. They can&#8217;t stay there forever, and they can&#8217;t go out into the streets. Tony Mendez of the CIA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-6073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6073"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9518,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions\/9518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}