{"id":524,"date":"2015-10-09T03:48:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T03:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2015-10-09T11:11:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:11:26","slug":"this-guy-tracks-presidential-movie-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"This Guy Tracks Presidential Movie Watching."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Movies are important, all over the world, and many presidents watch movies. It seems that no president watched more movies than Jimmy Carter. And the man who lusted in his heart brought the first x-rated film to the White House, at least officially. (Didn&#8217;t JFK live the x-rated life?)<\/p>\n<p>And note that by the time Midnight Cowboy screened at the White House it had been rerated R.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/paleofuture.gizmodo.com\/every-single-movie-that-jimmy-carter-watched-at-the-whi-1728538092\">link here is to a story about a guy <\/a>who uses\u00a0FOIA requests to glean the movie watching schedules of the Presidents of the US. He&#8217;s extracted\u00a0the publishable goods\u00a0for Carter (and Nixon and Reagan). What the hell is Bill Clinton hiding?<\/p>\n<p>Much less Jerry Ford?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking about making a tumblr devoted to movies our leaders should watch. They&#8217;ll watch, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-2015-10-09-07.08.34.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-528\" src=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-2015-10-09-07.08.34-300x210.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2015-10-09 07.08.34\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-2015-10-09-07.08.34-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-2015-10-09-07.08.34.png 552w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BTW perhaps the best filmic incursion into the Carter White House was Terry Southern&#8217;s Magic Christian. Not a great film, but an awesome provocation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movies are important, all over the world, and many presidents watch movies. It seems that no president watched more movies than Jimmy Carter. And the man who lusted in his heart brought the first x-rated film to the White House, at least officially. (Didn&#8217;t JFK live the x-rated life?) And note that by the time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=524\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Guy Tracks Presidential Movie Watching.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3,13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-movies","category-news","category-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}