{"id":3976,"date":"2005-04-15T10:28:04","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T14:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3976.html"},"modified":"2005-04-15T10:28:04","modified_gmt":"2005-04-15T14:28:04","slug":"movie-brackets-as-a-friday-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/movie-brackets-as-a-friday-diversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie brackets as a Friday diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know this isn&#8217;t a political story, but do readers mind a little Friday diversion?<\/p>\n<p>I stumbled upon this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/7182265\/\">MSNBC feature<\/a> in which it picked 64 comedies and put them up against each other, March Madness style. Granted, there are serious flaws &#8212; some of my favorite movies didn&#8217;t make the list (the original &#8220;In Laws,&#8221; &#8220;What About Bob?&#8221;), the &#8220;regional&#8221; breakdowns are a little odd, and some of the first-round pairings didn&#8217;t seem to make a lot of sense.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, I found it kind of fun anyway. My Final Four included Monty Python&#8217;s Holy Grail, Office Space, Raising Arizona, and Bowfinger.<\/p>\n<p>How about you? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/7182265\/\">Go to the page<\/a> and then scroll down to the bracket link towards the bottom. Final Four entries and suggestions for movies that didn&#8217;t make the final 64 but should have are welcome in the comments section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this isn&#8217;t a political story, but do readers mind a little Friday diversion? I stumbled upon this MSNBC feature in which it picked 64 comedies and put them up against each other, March Madness style. Granted, there are serious flaws &#8212; some of my favorite movies didn&#8217;t make the list (the original &#8220;In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}