{"id":4,"date":"2010-02-08T19:19:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T02:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaronlc.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2010-02-08T19:19:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T02:19:12","slug":"blazing-saddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/blazing-saddles\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazing Saddles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in probably 15 years I returned to Mel Brooks&#8217; Blazing Saddles. This amazing film, spoofs everything from cows to people with every race, color, sex (lots of it) and more taking a few belts. The biggest joke comes at the end when it is Hollywood who got a pie in the face, though after all the money this film has made in its 30+ years they probably don&#8217;t mind.I do admit to realizing that there were a number of jokes that went over my head as a 10-12 year old.  <em>I saw this movie in parts a total of 7 times before I was 15 before I sat through the whole film! <\/em>The whole move is wonderful, but I have a special fondness for the subdued performance of Gene Wilder.<\/p>\n<p>Mel&#8217;s humor and talent brought a big needed smile<em> <\/em>to this face. Thanks Mel!  You are greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in probably 15 years I returned to Mel Brooks&#8217; Blazing Saddles. This amazing film, spoofs everything from cows to people with every race, color, sex (lots of it) and more taking a few belts. The biggest joke comes at the end when it is Hollywood who got a pie in the [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}