{"id":2852,"date":"2004-05-02T18:55:08","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T18:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2004-05-02T18:55:08","modified_gmt":"2004-05-02T18:55:08","slug":"boycott-mean-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=2852","title":{"rendered":"BOYCOTT &#8220;MEAN GIRLS&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just listened to a &#8220;Fresh Air&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/freshair.npr.org\/day_fa.jhtml?display=day&#038;todayDate=04\/28\/2004\">interview<\/a> with Tina Fey, screenwriter of the movie.  Earlier I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cobranchi.com\/archives\/002931.html\">mentioned<\/a> that the main character had been homeschooled.  Now, Ms. Fey explains her rationale.  She chose to make the main character a homeschooler because she wanted a &#8220;social blank slate.&#8221;  Later, during production, they decided to make her a homeschooler from abroad because American homeschoolers are &#8220;too weird&#8221; and having one as the main character might be &#8220;off-putting.&#8221;  One more reason <i>not<\/i> to see the movie.  If you want to listen to the interview, the &#8220;interesting&#8221; part starts around 4:05.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just listened to a &#8220;Fresh Air&#8221; interview with Tina Fey, screenwriter of the movie. Earlier I had mentioned that the main character had been homeschooled. Now, Ms. Fey explains her rationale. She chose to make the main character a homeschooler because she wanted a &#8220;social blank slate.&#8221; Later, during production, they decided to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}