{"id":1139,"date":"2010-01-19T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2010-01-19T10:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T10:11:00","slug":"regarding-my-unwarranted-skepticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/19\/regarding-my-unwarranted-skepticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Regarding my unwarranted skepticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To Whom It May Concern:<\/p>\n<p>At several social functions during our recent visit to the US, my spouse Will told a somewhat humorous story involving the shooting of a movie in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland. I would like to address my remarks on those occasions. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the course of his story, Will sometimes speculated that the movie being shot may have been <em>Leap Year<\/em> and cited evidence to support that guess. In most cases, I ridiculed this conjecture, claiming that the timing was impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, ads promoting <em>Leap Year<\/em> have appeared on local television. In response, I indulged my curiosity regarding the movie and its making.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered that Will&#8217;s adventure in County Wicklow did, indeed correspond with some dates that filming occured in Ireland, generally. Thus, it is at least possible that Will&#8217;s hypothesis was correct.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writeexpress.com\/apology.htm\">I regret<\/a> any impression of implausibility that I may have generated regarding that hypothesis. I also have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/04\/22\/weekinreview\/the-perfect-non-apology-apology.html\">deep regret<\/a> for having deprived Will&#8217;s listeners of the pleasure of a story untainted by my commentary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectapology.com\/\">In all good faith,<\/a><br \/>\nAnita<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Whom It May Concern: At several social functions during our recent visit to the US, my spouse Will told a somewhat humorous story involving the shooting of a movie in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland. I would like to address my remarks on those occasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,15,6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}