{"id":5556,"date":"2015-08-20T23:47:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T03:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=5556"},"modified":"2015-08-20T23:49:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T03:49:56","slug":"heres-a-couple-of-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/?p=5556","title":{"rendered":"here&#8217;s a couple of links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before about both Captain Marvel and Ronda Rousey, but separately. Now,  for the first time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2015\/08\/16\/ronda-rousey-captain-marvel-fan-art\" target=\"_blank\">together<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>It would be interesting to see this, if it happens, but the fact is that usually acting is better done by actors. Rousey has been in films, but never in a lead role. (I haven&#8217;t seen the films she&#8217;s been in, but I do want to start to check out the Fast &#038; Furious series at some point.) <\/p>\n<p>But, as Henry James teaches us in his classic story &#8220;The Real Thing,&#8221; just because you <em>are<\/em> a thing doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re the most qualified to <em>portray<\/em> that thing. But we&#8217;ll see. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and this, nothing to do with combat sports or superheroes, but still funny: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/daily-shouts\/things-that-will-happen-if-i-dont-take-my-phone-out-right-now\" target=\"_blank\">Things That Will Happen If I Don\u2019t Take My Phone Out Right Now<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F5556&#038;print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F5556&#038;print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before about both Captain Marvel and Ronda Rousey, but separately. Now, for the first time, together! It would be interesting to see this, if it happens, but the fact is that usually acting is better done by actors. Rousey has been in films, but never in a lead role. (I haven&#8217;t seen the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5556"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5561,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions\/5561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u-town.com\/collins\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}