{"id":1988,"date":"2005-03-14T21:56:21","date_gmt":"2005-03-15T02:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2005-03-14T21:57:52","modified_gmt":"2005-03-15T02:57:52","slug":"ryan-is-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/14\/ryan-is-in-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan is in the house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My DVD of the Chris Landreth\/<a href=\"http:\/\/nfb.ca\/\">NFB<\/a> animation arrived today. I&#8217;ve watched it, and the supporting material, several times already. There are so many tiny details in the frames that it&#8217;ll take me many viewings to catch even some of them<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/ryan_schwartz.jpg' alt='Ryan on Saint-Laurent' \/><\/p>\n<p>The closing scene is the most poignant for me, with the fragmented Ryan panhandling outside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schwartzsdeli.com\/\">Schwartz&#8217;s<\/a> on Saint-Laurent. Reflected in the deli&#8217;s window is the bold young Ryan of his <em>Street Musique<\/em> heyday. All the lettering in the Montr\u00c3\u00a9al street scene is reversed, as if to say that the reflection is the real world, and what we&#8217;re seeing a distorted mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My DVD of the Chris Landreth\/NFB animation arrived today. I&#8217;ve watched it, and the supporting material, several times already. There are so many tiny details in the frames that it&#8217;ll take me many viewings to catch even some of them The closing scene is the most poignant for me, with the fragmented Ryan panhandling outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1080,900],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","tag-dvd","tag-nfb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-w4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}