{"id":204841,"date":"2026-04-28T13:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=204841"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:34:29","slug":"its-not-a-beautiful-day-in-the-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=204841","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s (not) a beautiful day in the neighborhood &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uRx53rcIvhc?si=XfBPjtF7NvnHA516\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nMichael, the &#8220;star&#8221; of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=35814\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">couple<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=126321\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pieces<\/a> I&#8217;ve written here has a movie hitting streaming called Monkey&#8217;s Magic Merry-Go-Round (which &#8230; lol). I don&#8217;t post about all the cool shit he does, because I&#8217;ve got my own cool shit to deal with &#8230; but I DID thank Michael in the acknowledgements section of my Frankenstein book (along with a lot of other people), because we started out as young actors together, supporting each other in whatever cool shit the other one was doing and &#8230; somehow &#8230; we just kept doing that. To this day.So this is fun because he&#8217;s acting again, not writing or directing. The trailer is hilarious, perhaps because I know him &#8211; I was in tears the first time I watched it &#8211; him strolling around singing, etc. Mr. Rogers tormented by the puppets in the Land of Make-Believe? It looks scary too. I can&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael, the &#8220;star&#8221; of a couple of pieces I&#8217;ve written here has a movie hitting streaming called Monkey&#8217;s Magic Merry-Go-Round (which &#8230; lol). I don&#8217;t post about all the cool shit he does, because I&#8217;ve got my own cool shit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=204841\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204841"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204841"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204850,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204841\/revisions\/204850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}