{"id":5205,"date":"2010-09-13T21:36:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T01:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=5205"},"modified":"2010-09-13T21:36:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T01:36:33","slug":"going-the-distance-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/09\/13\/going-the-distance-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Going the Distance&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/3o5.gif\" alt=\"3 Stars\" \/><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s something rather retro about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1322312\/\"><em>Going the Distance<\/em><\/a>. At first I thought it was set in the early 1990s. Then I realized that the technology is all wrong. Nevertheless there is something very 90s-ish about this movie. It feels a lot like an episode of <em>Friends<\/em>, except somewhat dirtier.<\/p>\n<p>Erin (Drew Barrymore) is sort of a lovable loser. She&#8217;s 31 years old and working as as intern at a New York newspaper while she finishes a graduate degree in Journalism. She meets Garrett (Justin Long), a clueless guy who has just been dumped by his girlfriend after committing a major relationship felony. They hit it off immediately. They&#8217;re perfect for each other. But she has to go back to San Francisco to complete her degree.<\/p>\n<p>So they embark on a long distance relationship. The resulting  story is just as predictable as you would expect, but it&#8217;s cheerful and upbeat and often quite funny. You could find worse ways to spend 100 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something rather retro about Going the Distance. At first I thought it was set in the early 1990s. Then I realized that the technology is all wrong. Nevertheless there&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/09\/13\/going-the-distance-movie-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5205"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5210,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions\/5210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}