{"id":4545,"date":"2020-07-15T20:54:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T03:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4545"},"modified":"2020-08-06T15:18:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T22:18:03","slug":"american-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4545","title":{"rendered":"American Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I think they wanted things to come easy for them. They didn&#8217;t want to work for a transformative experience. They didn&#8217;t want to help other people achieve a transformative experience. I find them all very selfish.<br><br>I still have trouble figuring out how a person crosses a line in their own mind, to be willing to hurt another person to get what they want. I think once you&#8217;ve crossed that line, I think it&#8217;s a dangerous line to cross.<br><br>It makes me wonder if they really know why they did it.<\/p><cite>-Betty Jean Gouch<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>American Animals is a 2018 movie based on the true story of four young men who attempt to execute an audacious (and ill executed) art heist by stealing 2 rare Audubon books from a nearby library&#8217;s special collections. Struggling to find meaning in their dull lives, they formulate a daring plan for the robbery only to watch their mistakes and reality catch up with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quote comes one of the real life office workers who encountered them when they tried to steal the books. Of all the characters, I think she grasps the humanity of the situation the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think they wanted things to come easy for them. They didn&#8217;t want to work for a transformative experience. They didn&#8217;t want to help other people achieve a transformative experience. I find them all very selfish. I still have trouble figuring out how a person crosses a line in their own mind, to be willing to hurt another person to get what they want. I think once you&#8217;ve crossed that line, I think it&#8217;s a dangerous line to cross. It&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=4545\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1bj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4581,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions\/4581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}