{"id":15784,"date":"2008-01-27T13:51:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T18:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/index.php\/2008\/01\/27\/just-dont-show-it\/"},"modified":"2008-01-27T13:51:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-27T18:51:52","slug":"just-dont-show-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15784","title":{"rendered":"Just don't show it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Censors wagging the dog<\/p>\n

OK, for the Nth time in recent memory, there was a movie on cable, with which they just shouldn’t have bothered. If you’re going to show Blazing Saddles<\/a> but are going to blip out every instance of words like “nigger” and “faggot,” just don’t bother. It’s a satire about bigotry. It loses a whole lot in translation when you try and clean up the bigoted speech.<\/p>\n

Similarly, if you are going to show The Jerk<\/a>, either leave “blowjob” in it or cut the whole damn scene. It’s pointless otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Censors wagging the dog OK, for the Nth time in recent memory, there was a movie on cable, with which they just shouldn’t have bothered. If you’re going to show Blazing Saddles but are going to blip out every instance … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}