{"id":1774,"date":"2003-08-22T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-22T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2021-05-25T10:54:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:54:39","slug":"faramir-did-not-shoot-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/08\/22\/faramir-did-not-shoot-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Faramir Did Not Shoot First"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/lotrbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; All Hail Ken Crane&#8217;s and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdplanet.com\">DVD Planet<\/a>. Because of them I have two copies of <i>The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers<\/i> already in hand. (The widescreen and fullscreen releases, of course, so I can have the best of both worlds.)<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; The early arrival, five days before the release date, is simply because I pre-ordered them, but I&#8217;d like to think they&#8217;re \u201cadvance copies\u201d since that makes me feel like some Hollywood Insider. Of course the first thing I did was watch the sneak preview of <i>The Return of the King<\/i>:<center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/rotk2.jpg?resize=500%2C226&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"226\" style=\"border: 2px solid #555;\"><br><small>Gandalf and Shadowfax, and Pippin I presume, approach Minas Tirith<\/small><\/center><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; P.S.  My annual fullscreen\/widescreen comparison will have to wait, unfortunately, until I get my video card fixed.  (It was tough enough just getting the above freeze-frame.) Until then, happy viewing.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; All Hail Ken Crane&#8217;s and DVD Planet. Because of them I have two copies of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers already in hand. (The widescreen and fullscreen releases, of course, so I can have the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/08\/22\/faramir-did-not-shoot-first\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotr","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}