{"id":8458,"date":"2008-10-01T11:07:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8458"},"modified":"2024-10-27T19:18:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T23:18:24","slug":"its-their-rink-its-their-ice-and-its-their-fuckin-town-but-tonight-we-got-our-fans-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8458","title":{"rendered":"<i>Slap Shot<\/i>: \u201cIt\u2019s their rink, it\u2019s their ice, and it\u2019s their fuckin\u2019 town. But tonight we got our fans with us!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Morgan, in <a href=\"http:\/\/sunsetgun.typepad.com\/sunsetgun\/2008\/09\/the-brilliant-s.html\">her typically great way, remembers <i>Slap Shot<\/i>.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A pure sports film, Slap Shot encompasses all aspects of the game: It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s about the team, it&#8217;s about the coaches, it&#8217;s about the towns, it&#8217;s about the politics and, with almost transcendent gusto, it&#8217;s about the dirt. Hilariously vicious dirt that boasts some of cinema\u00e2\u0080\u0099s most toxic lines &#8212; lines I can\u00e2\u0080\u0099t repeat here. And it boasts the greatest use of that Maxine Nightingale song &#8212; a tune that shouldn&#8217;t be allowed in any other motion picture ever again. I can only picture cold busses, booze, rust brown flairs, Newman&#8217;s fur trimmed leather jackets and Strother Martin while hearing this song &#8212; and that&#8217;s how it should be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"slap_shot_Newman.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/slap_shot_Newman.jpg\" width=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Morgan, in her typically great way, remembers Slap Shot. A pure sports film, Slap Shot encompasses all aspects of the game: It\u00e2\u0080\u0099s about the team, it&#8217;s about the coaches, it&#8217;s about the towns, it&#8217;s about the politics and, with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8458\">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":[122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458"}],"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=8458"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14229,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458\/revisions\/14229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}