{"id":272,"date":"2004-12-16T00:16:50","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T06:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2004-12-16T00:16:50","modified_gmt":"2004-12-16T06:16:50","slug":"truth-is-stranger-than-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2004\/12\/truth-is-stranger-than-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth is stranger than fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThis evening Jerome, Shari, Anne, and I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0362227\/\">The Terminal<\/a>.  I really enjoyed it, but probably a bit more than the others&#8230;of course, I tend to be a bit more, uh, vocal, in my laughter.  Anyway, it is loosely based upon the real-life travails of an Iranian refugee stranded in Paris.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/21\/magazine\/magazinespecial\/MFMERHANT.html?ex=1379476800&#038;en=360b6f8f63635c6a&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">Waiting for Spielberg<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nUnlike most urban legends, the one about the Iranian exile stuck at the Paris airport for 15 years is true. Surrounded by a mountain of his possessions near the Paris Bye Bye lounge at Terminal 1 in Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Merhan Karimi Nasseri is still there after all these years &#8212; a celebrity homeless person.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening Jerome, Shari, Anne, and I watched The Terminal. I really enjoyed it, but probably a bit more than the others&#8230;of course, I tend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-4o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}