{"id":73967,"date":"2013-12-13T06:48:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T11:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=73967"},"modified":"2022-10-01T12:31:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T16:31:38","slug":"the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=73967","title":{"rendered":"Review: <i>The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug<\/i> (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/large_ouIvgaSFqBMMailxU9zZiVIXXeV.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/large_ouIvgaSFqBMMailxU9zZiVIXXeV.jpg\" alt=\"large_ouIvgaSFqBMMailxU9zZiVIXXeV\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/large_ouIvgaSFqBMMailxU9zZiVIXXeV.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/large_ouIvgaSFqBMMailxU9zZiVIXXeV-66x100.jpg 66w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/large_ouIvgaSFqBMMailxU9zZiVIXXeV-133x200.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/large_ouIvgaSFqBMMailxU9zZiVIXXeV-266x400.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nI thought the first installment was embarrassing and bad.  <\/p>\n<p>Good news, though: the second one is pretty great!  Still too goddamn long, Jackson, Jesus Mary and Joseph, but the real work that needs to be done is done here and I loved it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug-2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My review is now up at Roger Ebert.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought the first installment was embarrassing and bad. Good news, though: the second one is pretty great! Still too goddamn long, Jackson, Jesus Mary and Joseph, but the real work that needs to be done is done here and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=73967\">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":[2577,262,2308,2668,853],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73967"}],"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=73967"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148429,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73967\/revisions\/148429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}