{"id":2967,"date":"2011-07-11T16:57:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T22:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2011-07-11T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T23:00:12","slug":"the-wild-and-wonderful-whites-of-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=2967","title":{"rendered":"The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have a ton to say about\u00a0<a title=\"It's the name of a family. There is, to my very great surprise, functionally no racism in this movie. (Or I dozed through any that happened late in the film.)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1396227\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia<\/a>, and actually to some extent\u00a0because\u00a0of spoilers, ridiculous as that sounds. Basically, it&#8217;s this: if you want to watch a documentary that simultaneously makes you feel a lot better about yourself and a lot worse about humanity than you did before, come no further. Well, except for the guilt when you laugh, which you will many, many times. (Hopefully\u00a0that\u00a0part <em>won&#8217;t<\/em> make you feel better.)<\/p>\n<p>Also, it has multiple cameos by Hank Williams III, who sounds a great deal like his grandfather and looks a great deal like&#8230; well, like he was born to the wild and wonderful Whites of West Virginia. Which, to be clear, is not a compliment. (Also, spoiler alert, they are not wonderful.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have a ton to say about\u00a0The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, and actually to some extent\u00a0because\u00a0of spoilers, ridiculous as that sounds. Basically, it&#8217;s this: if you want to watch a documentary that simultaneously makes you feel a lot better about yourself and a lot worse about humanity than you did before, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[373],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-documentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}