{"id":2916,"date":"2007-02-23T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2916"},"modified":"2007-02-23T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T18:44:00","slug":"syriana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2916","title":{"rendered":"Syriana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/Rd83I_3ybJI\/AAAAAAAAAgQ\/xvXI479GAic\/s1600-h\/syriana3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/Rd83I_3ybJI\/AAAAAAAAAgQ\/xvXI479GAic\/s400\/syriana3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>Finally got round to seeing this; it has been talked about quite a bit in Peak Oil circles, but as I hardly ever get to the cinema these days, it had to wait until it as on special offer from the Virgin Megastore before being watched. Which is fine &#8211; I&#8217;ll watch it again. Quite absorbing portrait of the oil world in its several aspects; a very interesting sub-theme about fatherhood in family relations; but either I missed something or the director missed something; something known as a point &#8211; though I suppose still life and portraiture doesn&#8217;t need a &#8216;point&#8217; still I like my narratives to carry that weight.<span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally got round to seeing this; it has been talked about quite a bit in Peak Oil circles, but as I hardly ever get to the cinema these days, it had to wait until it as on special offer from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2916\">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":{"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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3npsc-syriana","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}