{"id":8807,"date":"2023-03-31T19:57:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T01:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=8807"},"modified":"2023-03-31T19:57:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T01:57:18","slug":"cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=8807","title":{"rendered":"Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MV5BMTE5Mzk5MTA2Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNTY3NTc2._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8808\" src=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MV5BMTE5Mzk5MTA2Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNTY3NTc2._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MV5BMTE5Mzk5MTA2Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNTY3NTc2._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MV5BMTE5Mzk5MTA2Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNTY3NTc2._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MV5BMTE5Mzk5MTA2Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNTY3NTc2._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MV5BMTE5Mzk5MTA2Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNTY3NTc2._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_-624x924.jpg 624w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MV5BMTE5Mzk5MTA2Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNTY3NTc2._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>The boy has been watching <a title=\"The All-New 2006\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0317219\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cars<\/a> practically nonstop for the past four months. (Six?) But I didn&#8217;t ever sit down and watch it myself until this week. Common wisdom is that it&#8217;s a ripoff of <em>Doc Hollywood<\/em>, which would be easier to comment on if I, uh, remembered almost anything about that movie. I mean, the broad strokes, yes, in that a hotshot racecar|doctor learns that small town life is worthwhile and also falls in love. But I think I should be able to speak at a little more depth than that, to confirm or deny.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, at the end of the day, Pixar or not, it&#8217;s a kid movie, and unless maybe if you also are really into stock car racing (which I am not), it does not surpass its origins in the way that, say, parts of <a title=\"My review of Up (2009)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=1174\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Up<\/a> did. But it&#8217;s good enough to watch when his eyes light up like that, even if I think he should be watching Star Wars instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boy has been watching Cars practically nonstop for the past four months. (Six?) But I didn&#8217;t ever sit down and watch it myself until this week. Common wisdom is that it&#8217;s a ripoff of Doc Hollywood, which would be easier to comment on if I, uh, remembered almost anything about that movie. I mean, [&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":[436,609,420,1325,1018,1242],"class_list":["post-8807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-adventure","tag-animation","tag-comedy","tag-disney","tag-family","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807","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=8807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8811,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807\/revisions\/8811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}