{"id":1218,"date":"2013-03-12T13:48:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2013-03-19T14:34:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T19:34:39","slug":"bob-woodward-and-gene-sperling-what-woodwards-john-belushi-book-can-tell-us-about-the-sequester-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"What Woodward\u2019s John Belushi book can tell us about the sequester scandal."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>First off, Woodward wrongly calls the cafeteria scene a rehearsal, when half the point of the story is that Belushi pulled it off without ever rehearsing it once. Also, there\u2019s actually nothing in the anecdote to indicate laziness or lack of discipline on Belushi\u2019s part, yet Woodward chooses to establish the scene using those words. The implication is that Belushi was so unfocused and unprepared that he couldn\u2019t make it through the scene without the director beside him telling him what to do, which is not what took place. When I interviewed him, Landis disputed that he ever referred to Belushi as lazy or undisciplined. \u201cThe greatest crime of that book,\u201d Landis says of <em>Wired<\/em>, \u201cis that if you read it and you\u2019d just assume that John was a pig and an asshole, and he was anything but. He could be abrupt and unpleasant, but most of the time he was totally charming and people adored him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/culturebox\/2013\/03\/bob_woodward_and_gene_sperling_what_woodward_s_john_belushi_book_can_tell.html\">Bob Woodward and Gene Sperling: What Woodward\u2019s John Belushi book can tell us about the sequester scandal. &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, Woodward wrongly calls the cafeteria scene a rehearsal, when half the point of the story is that Belushi pulled it off without ever rehearsing it once. Also, there\u2019s actually nothing in the anecdote to indicate laziness or lack &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=1218\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-old-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}