{"id":20810,"date":"2013-02-12T05:04:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T05:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/02\/12\/for-two-seasons-we-wanted-to-do-an-episode-where\/"},"modified":"2013-02-12T05:04:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T05:04:40","slug":"for-two-seasons-we-wanted-to-do-an-episode-where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/02\/12\/for-two-seasons-we-wanted-to-do-an-episode-where\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For two seasons we wanted to do an episode where Jeff Winger pretended there was a class called \u2018Nicolas Cage Appreciation,\u2019 and then the Dean caught them and as punishment to them he was going to make that a real class and force them to watch all the Nicolas Cage movies in one night. The thing about Nicolas Cage movies is\u2026 unless you\u2019re a total cynical dick, you have to embrace the fact that Nicolas Cage is a pretty good actor. He\u2019s done a lot of weird, dumb movies, but that was supposed to be the point of the episode \u2014 that Nicolas Cage is a metaphor for God, or for society, or for the self, or something. It\u2019s like \u2014 what is Nicolas Cage? What is he? Is he an idiot? Or a genius? Can you write him off, or is he inexplicably bound to your soul?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/370094\/the-best-of-dan-harmon-with-a-microphone-at-communicon\">Dan Harmon<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/confusedtree.tumblr.com\/\">confusedtree<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For two seasons we wanted to do an episode where Jeff Winger pretended there was a class called \u2018Nicolas Cage Appreciation,\u2019 and then the Dean caught them and as punishment to them he was going to make that a real class and force them to watch all the Nicolas Cage movies in one night. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/02\/12\/for-two-seasons-we-wanted-to-do-an-episode-where\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7646,7645],"class_list":["post-20810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dan-harmon-appreciation-post","tag-i-miss-dan-harmon","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}