{"id":14732,"date":"2006-02-13T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lookingcloser.wordpress.com\/2006\/02\/13\/mcsweenys-on-crash-bad-star-wars-valentines\/"},"modified":"2012-11-13T00:30:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T07:30:53","slug":"mcsweenys-on-crash-bad-star-wars-valentines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/2006\/02\/mcsweenys-on-crash-bad-star-wars-valentines\/","title":{"rendered":"McSweeny&#8217;s on &quot;Crash.&quot; Bad &quot;Star Wars&quot; Valentines."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>McSweeny\u2019s writer Brendan Lloyd has just posted the shortest, and yet most memorable, <a href=\"http:\/\/mcsweeneys.net\/2006\/2\/6lloyd.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">commentary<\/a> on Paul Haggis\u2019s <em>Crash <\/em>I\u2019ve yet seen.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of funny\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingawful.com\/articles.php?a=3574\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Worst Valentines in the World<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McSweeny\u2019s writer Brendan Lloyd has just posted the shortest, and yet most memorable, commentary on Paul Haggis\u2019s Crash I\u2019ve yet seen. 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