{"id":5114,"date":"2017-02-25T15:19:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T20:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5114"},"modified":"2017-02-25T15:19:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T20:19:11","slug":"straw-men-as-a-plot-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=5114","title":{"rendered":"Straw men as a plot device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a video a propos of the use of straw men in movie plots:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"4 Movie Straw Men Characters That Keep Showing Up - The Spit Take\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sx9KsKyMh4s?start=124&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To be precise, I think they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1072\">hollow men<\/a>, as no one would act this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a video a propos of the use of straw men in movie plots: To be precise, I think they&#8217;re hollow men, as no one would act this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1160,798],"class_list":["post-5114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-hollow-men","tag-straw-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5115,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions\/5115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}