{"id":171,"date":"2004-03-21T08:16:20","date_gmt":"2004-03-21T13:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=171"},"modified":"2005-12-30T19:14:11","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T00:14:11","slug":"the-passion-of-the-romero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-passion-of-the-romero","title":{"rendered":"The Passion of the Romero"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dawn of the Dead<\/em> outsells<\/a> The Passion<\/em>! Two movies about resurrection dominate the box office! Guess which one has the really gross special effects and shows a guy getting tortured to death?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dawn of the Dead outsells The Passion! Two movies about resurrection dominate the box office! Guess which one has the really gross special effects and shows a guy getting tortured to death?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-2L","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":139,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/ill-show-you-passion","url_meta":{"origin":171,"position":0},"title":"I’ll Show YOU Passion","author":"Gil","date":"February 26, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I haven't been out to see The Passion of the Christ. I don't really plan on doing so, but I have a question for those of you who are going to see it:If this movie was directed by someone who wasn't a Hollywood movie star, would you go to see\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/yet-more-responses","url_meta":{"origin":171,"position":1},"title":"Yet More Responses","author":"Gil","date":"February 28, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"It doesn't seem like all of Christendom is mad at me because of that entry I wrote about the Passion flick. One guy writes:You seem very passionate about the passion. 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