{"id":113,"date":"2002-08-09T21:31:23","date_gmt":"2002-08-10T04:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2002-08-09T21:31:23","modified_gmt":"2002-08-10T04:31:23","slug":"hollywood-smitten-with-god-god-smites-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2002\/08\/hollywood-smitten-with-god-god-smites-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood smitten with God, God smites back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God punishes <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Eszterhas,+Joe\">Joe Eszterhas<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0114436\">Showgirls<\/a>, although Joe is under the impression that his smoking is to blame, so he makes a deal with God and writes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/08\/09\/opinion\/09ESZT.html\">New York Times opinion piece<\/a> urging others to stop glamorizing cigarettes. If God is so worried about the risks we run if we smoke, why can&#8217;t God just make smoking safe?<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, National Rifle Association President and one-time Red Sea parter Charlton Heston <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A64138-2002Aug9.html\">may have Alzheimer&#8217;s<\/a>. Let&#8217;s just hope he remembers the gun safety rules&#8211;or else we might have to take away his gun license.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>[Fri, Aug 09 2002 &#8211; 18:16] Cole<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/mistressofpuppets.com\">www<\/a>) (<a href=\"mailto:lady_crow@hotmail.com\">email<\/a>) cute.. <!-- comment --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God punishes Joe Eszterhas for Showgirls, although Joe is under the impression that his smoking is to blame, so he makes a deal with God and writes a New York Times opinion piece urging others to stop glamorizing cigarettes. If &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2002\/08\/hollywood-smitten-with-god-god-smites-back\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-philosophy-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-1P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}