{"id":1419,"date":"2019-08-15T02:15:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T02:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2019-08-15T02:15:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T02:15:52","slug":"wrong-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wrong-is-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong is Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Wrong is Right\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0084920\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"illustration\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BZDdkMWQyZjUtYzU3My00Mjg1LWE5NDMtYmI1OGQ5ZTQ5ZWUyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjUwNzk3NDc@._V1_.jpg\" width=\"156\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>Tonight I ended up watching a film (&#8220;movie&#8221; for my Merkin friends) starring Sean Connery, from 1982, that predicted the whole &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; including the World Trade Center bombing. You&#8217;d have thought that such a significant film, starring a huge movie star like Connery, would be well known by everyone. But if you&#8217;ve even heard of it you&#8217;re in the minority and if you&#8217;ve actually seen it then&#8230;well we&#8217;ve never met at least.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s called &#8220;Wrong is Right&#8221; &#8211; or for us that grew up outside of the US it was rebranded as &#8220;The Man with the Deadly Lens&#8221; (they thought Bondifying it would make it popular). Currently on Huflix Prime or whatever. Satire. Worth the whole 2 hours for the final, final scene.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I ended up watching a film (&#8220;movie&#8221; for my Merkin friends) starring Sean Connery, from 1982, that predicted the whole &#8220;War on Terror&#8221; including the World Trade Center bombing. You&#8217;d have thought that such a significant film, starring a huge movie star like Connery, would be well known by everyone. But if you&#8217;ve even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}