{"id":2202,"date":"2012-11-26T15:02:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T15:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2013-03-25T10:10:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T10:10:46","slug":"the-flinch-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=2202","title":{"rendered":"The flinch factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of Boardwalk Empire, the main problem I have is all the flinching.\u00a0Take the scene where prohibition agent turned iron salesman Nelson Van Alden gets mercilessly teased by his coworkers during a demonstration of his doorstep patter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vanalden12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2209\" title=\"vanalden1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vanalden12.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vanalden12.jpg 700w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vanalden12-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anybody whose attention isn&#8217;t divided between their iPad and TV has a pretty good idea what&#8217;s going to happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vanalden2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2204\" title=\"vanalden2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vanalden2.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vanalden2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vanalden2-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which doesn&#8217;t make it easier to watch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vanalden31.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2211\" title=\"vanalden3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vanalden31.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vanalden31.jpg 700w, https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/vanalden31-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Close on the heels of the flinching issue (I&#8217;ve been contemplating a tip sheet about how to survive an encounter with Gyp Rosetti, but with season 3 about to detonate, it&#8217;s difficult to see him being a problem beyond the next episode) is fatigue from counting the people getting whacked, and in the case of Owen, packed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of Boardwalk Empire, the main problem I have is all the flinching.\u00a0Take the scene where prohibition agent turned iron salesman Nelson Van Alden gets mercilessly teased by his coworkers during a demonstration of his doorstep patter. Anybody whose attention &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=2202\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3305,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions\/3305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}