{"id":1997,"date":"2010-12-10T18:49:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T18:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/10\/you_got_it_raw\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T04:29:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T09:29:10","slug":"you_got_it_raw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/10\/you_got_it_raw\/","title":{"rendered":"You got it raw!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019ve wanted to write something<\/strong> about John Waters, and why I respect  and adore him so much, and how he&#8217;s been so influential for so much of my life &#8212; I saw him speak last Saturday night, just before I left the UK, and had him autograph my expired visa &#8212; but it would be hard to put all that in tow words properly at the best of time, and I\u2019ve been absurdly busy.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, let&#8217;s just enjoy a few moments from <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0099329\/\" >Cry-Baby<\/a><\/i>, shall we? I still remember seeing this with some girls I knew in college, and when Polly Bergen said with some disgust, &#8220;Boys with long hair . . . and tattoos . . . who <i>spit<\/i> on the ground,&#8221; we all experienced a collective throb of &#8220;Oh yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/crybaby_1.gif\"  vspace=\"5\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/crybaby_2.gif\"  vspace=\"5\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/crybaby_3.gif\"  vspace=\"5\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/crybaby_4.gif\"  vspace=\"5\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve wanted to write something about John Waters, and why I respect and adore him so much, and how he&#8217;s been so influential for so much of my life &#8212; I saw him speak last Saturday night, just before I left the UK, and had him autograph my expired visa &#8212; but it would be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/10\/you_got_it_raw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You got it raw!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69176,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/69176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}