{"id":2313,"date":"2006-03-22T14:24:51","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T19:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2018-08-23T16:17:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T20:17:43","slug":"serial-persky-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2313","title":{"rendered":"(Persky 1980) Serial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9721\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9721\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9721\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/06-03-22-VIEW-Persky-1980-Serial.jpg\" alt=\"06-03-22 VIEW (Persky 1980) Serial\" width=\"294\" height=\"167\"><\/a>Cyra McFad\u00adden\u2019s odd\u00adball satire of life in Marin Coun\u00adty, an afflu\u00adent sub\u00adurb north of San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco, dur\u00ading the late 1970\u2019s, was made into a film in 1980.&nbsp;I showed this won\u00adder\u00adful lit\u00adtle piece of cul\u00adtur\u00adal time-trav\u00adel to a young friend.&nbsp;Noth\u00ading could bet\u00adter show how much a cul\u00adture can trans\u00adform in a gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion or two.&nbsp;For him, it was a voy\u00adage to anoth\u00ader plan\u00adet, with incom\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsi\u00adble val\u00adues, cus\u00adtoms and jar\u00adgon.&nbsp;Even for me, who was exposed to Marin coun\u00adty not too many years after\u00adward, the movie seemed bizarre.&nbsp;A lot of water has passed under the bridge.&nbsp;The film, star\u00adring Mar\u00adtin Mull in the lead role of a mid\u00addle-aged hus\u00adband over\u00adwhelmed by incom\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsi\u00adble trends and psy\u00adchob\u00ada\u00adb\u00adble, cap\u00adtured the ambiance per\u00adfect\u00adly.&nbsp;McFad\u00adden\u2019s work was noth\u00ading like the scor\u00adpi\u00adon vicious\u00adness of a New York\u00ader\u2019s satirist\u2014 it was pure Stephen Leacock.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyra McFad\u00adden\u2019s odd\u00adball satire of life in Marin Coun\u00adty, an afflu\u00adent sub\u00adurb north of San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco, dur\u00ading the late 1970\u2019s, was made into a film in 1980.&nbsp;I showed this won\u00adder\u00adful lit\u00adtle piece of cul\u00adtur\u00adal time-trav\u00adel to a young friend.&nbsp;Noth\u00ading&nbsp;could&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=2313\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[948,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-viewing","category-du-viewing-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9722,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/9722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}