{"id":531,"date":"2007-06-15T12:07:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T20:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=531"},"modified":"2007-06-15T12:07:19","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T20:07:19","slug":"recommended-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/15\/recommended-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you like movies and\/or British comedy, I&#8217;d strongly recommend adding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/fivelive\/entertainment\/kermode.shtml\">Mark Kermode&#8217;s podcast<\/a> to your iPod.  I&#8217;ve listened to it for several months, and it&#8217;s one of my favorites.  It&#8217;s a half-hour snippet of a longer radio show hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simon_Mayo\">Simon Mayo<\/a> in which, every Friday, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Kermode\">Kermode<\/a> comes in to review films.<\/p>\n<p>They review the movies that are newly released in England, which largely correspond to the US but occasionally they review movies that aren&#8217;t out here yet, or review movies that came out here several months ago.  Kermode is famous for his rants, and he and Mayo have a great chemistry.  It&#8217;s very entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>One note about his reviews which is absolutely true (excerpted from Wikipedia):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His emphasis on genre cinema has also meant he often expresses a liking for films panned by other critics, such as Basic Instinct 2 or Lassie because they follow genre expectations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like movies and\/or British comedy, I&#8217;d strongly recommend adding Mark Kermode&#8217;s podcast to your iPod. I&#8217;ve listened to it for several months, and it&#8217;s one of my favorites. It&#8217;s a half-hour snippet of a longer radio show hosted by Simon Mayo in which, every Friday, Kermode comes in to review films. They review [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-8z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}