{"id":948,"date":"2002-03-05T02:51:05","date_gmt":"2002-03-05T02:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=948"},"modified":"2012-04-25T02:52:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T02:52:04","slug":"the-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"The Time Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>The Time Machine<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>We\u2019d originally planned to discuss a book on this             date, but Willie Siros got a bunch of free passes to a             movie preview and convinced us to postpone the meeting.             A large group of Reading Group members and their             significant others (at least 20 people total) went to             the Metropolitan to see this adaptation of the H. G.             Wells novel.<\/p>\n<p>We thought this was a well-crafted action movie full of             impressive computer-generated images of time passing             quickly. We liked the performances of Guy<!--more--> Pearce as the             Time Traveler and Orlando Jones as an Artificial             Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of the original novel were disappointed by this             film. The story bore only a superficial resemblance to             the novel\u2019s plot, and it seemed more like a             remake of the 1960 <em>Time Machine<\/em> movie.             Unfortunately the 2002 version lacks much of the charm             of either the book or the earlier movie, and the story             didn\u2019t make a lot of sense. None of us understood             why the film ended with a big explosion.<\/p>\n<p>We were all curious about this film and enjoyed the             chance to see it for free. Thanks to Willie for             providing the tickets. After the film several of us had             dinner at Chili\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Time Machine We\u2019d originally planned to discuss a book on this date, but Willie Siros got a bunch of free passes to a movie preview and convinced us to postpone the meeting. A large group of Reading Group members and their significant others (at least 20 people total) went to the Metropolitan to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}