{"id":457,"date":"2004-09-22T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-22T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2005-02-04T08:38:48","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T06:38:48","slug":"the-yes-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/22\/the-yes-men\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yes Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyesmenmovie.com\/\">The Yes Men movie<\/a> if you happen to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyesmen.org\/movie\/\">where it opens<\/a> (New York or LA) on September 24 (also other places on October 1 &#8211; check the link.)<\/p>\n<p>Some people (me) would love to be there, but are in Africa instead. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonionavclub.com\/yesmen\/\">Here&#8217;s the trailer.<\/a> I just watched it, and it looks absolutely absolutely absolutely brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go see The Yes Men movie if you happen to be where it opens (New York or LA) on September 24 (also other places on October 1 &#8211; check the link.) Some people (me) would love to be there, but are in Africa instead. Here&#8217;s the trailer. I just watched it, and it looks absolutely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-news-and-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-7n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":960,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/04\/spamalot\/","url_meta":{"origin":457,"position":0},"title":"Spamalot","author":"bronwyn lace","date":"04 December 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally back in South Africa. 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