{"id":302,"date":"2004-11-05T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-05T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2004-11-05T05:26:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-05T05:26:00","slug":"302","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

National Treasure<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Hey,” says M., watching the trailer for Nicholas Cage’s new movie,<\/a> “It’s a heist movie.” (She likes heists and capers.)<\/p>\n

I think it looks more like The Da Vinci Code<\/em><\/a> for Deists<\/a>. We shall have to find out whose judgment is more correct.
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National Treasure “Hey,” says M., watching the trailer for Nicholas Cage’s new movie, “It’s a heist movie.” (She likes heists and capers.) I think it looks more like The Da Vinci Code for Deists. We shall have to find out whose judgment is more correct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-302","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1916,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1916","url_meta":{"origin":302,"position":0},"title":"San Francisco, Market Street, 1905","author":"Chas S. 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