{"id":3557,"date":"2025-03-26T08:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T12:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2025-03-26T08:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T12:37:58","slug":"shower-thought-about-wall-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3557","title":{"rendered":"Shower-thought about WALL-E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was today years old when I figured out that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WALL-E\">WALL-E<\/a> (2008) is just a re-telling of the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Idiocracy\">Idiocracy<\/a> (2006).<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t take this the wrong way.\u00a0 I like both movies.\u00a0 However, the parallels I see off the top of my head:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The world is a mess, literally and figuratively;<\/li>\n<li>People are obsessed with low-grade entertainment and let their minds (and, in the case of WALL-E, their bodies) fall apart, while machines and automation have kept society from collapsing<\/li>\n<li>Nobody knows how to get plants to grow;<\/li>\n<li>Someone from the past holds the key to saving the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are probably more, this is all going from memory while I was in the shower this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was today years old when I figured out that WALL-E (2008) is just a re-telling of the movie Idiocracy (2006). Don&#8217;t take this the wrong way.\u00a0 I like both movies.\u00a0 However, the parallels I see off the top of my head: The world is a mess, literally and figuratively; People are obsessed with low-grade &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=3557\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shower-thought about WALL-E&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[137,915,74,914],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fluff","tag-dad-forgot-his-meds-again","tag-idiocracy","tag-movies","tag-wall-e"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-Vn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}