{"id":1179,"date":"2008-07-16T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/07\/16\/he-told-you-so\/"},"modified":"2008-07-16T05:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T12:21:00","slug":"he-told-you-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/07\/16\/he-told-you-so\/","title":{"rendered":"He Told You So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of to-do in the news lately about the economy&#8211;recession, financial crisis, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">yada yada yada<\/span>.  You know what?  I heard all this back in May, 2007, from James Scurlock*, director of the documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0762117\/\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Maxed Out<\/span><\/a> and author of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=1416532536\/curtiscchensfree\">accompanying book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is, doing Q&amp;A after a screening of the film at Google:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5Wv41wjFxkI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/5Wv41wjFxkI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"326\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>As with most non-Michael Moore documentaries, this one didn&#8217;t really get a wide release, but it is worth seeing, especially now that sub-prime mortgages have melted down and everyone on Wall Street says the sky is falling.  As my friend Mark says:  &#8220;Debt is a four-letter word.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n<p>* <small>Not to be confused with Morgan Spurlock of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Super Size Me<\/span> fame.<br \/><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of to-do in the news lately about the economy&#8211;recession, financial crisis, yada yada yada. You know what? I heard all this back in May, 2007, from James Scurlock*, director of the documentary Maxed Out and author&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}