{"id":339,"date":"2005-03-15T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-15T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2005-03-15T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-15T05:04:00","slug":"we-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"We get it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I move we censor bagpipes.  Like touchdown celebrations, the use of the once understandable, even appropriate, piping had become uncontained, unbridled in its fervor.  I refer in particular to the sound of bagpipes being used in cinema and television as the theme for the  beautiful-warlike-melancholy-male.  It is as if the instrument can only play mournful war ballads.<\/p>\n<p>The sound is now used as a convenient way to elicit the aforementioned <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Braveheart <\/span>emotion.  Why bother writing decent dialogue or presenting moving imagery when Hamish McHamish can set his bag to &#8220;archetype&#8221; and bring on the tears for a lot less capital?<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that this doesn&#8217;t work.  Despite the best efforts of the entertainment industry, we haven&#8217;t yet become Pavloved enough to paint ourselves blue every time some red-haired cannibal breathes into a Hoover.  So stop it.  Enough already.  Save it for something actually Scottish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I move we censor bagpipes. Like touchdown celebrations, the use of the once understandable, even appropriate, piping had become uncontained, unbridled in its fervor. I refer in particular to the sound of bagpipes being used in cinema and television as the theme for the beautiful-warlike-melancholy-male. It is as if the instrument can only play mournful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}