{"id":3,"date":"2007-01-21T19:44:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T02:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/2007\/01\/21\/ned-vs-nick\/"},"modified":"2007-01-21T19:44:58","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T02:44:58","slug":"ned-vs-nick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/2007\/01\/21\/ned-vs-nick\/","title":{"rendered":"Ned vs. Nick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan you shake to fox-trot time, a Bronx to two-step time, a dry martini you always shake to waltz time.&#8221; ~The Thin Man<br \/>\nOne of my favorite movie series is The Thin Man, with William Powell-needless to say based on another of Hammett&#8217;s novels. I haven&#8217;t read the book, so I don&#8217;t know how representative it is of the text, but if Nick is in represented as anything, it&#8217;s a sarcastic, witty, faithful alcoholic. Ned&#8217;s does the drinking, as well as gambling and he;s a master of witty discourse, but he&#8217;s a lot more difficult to get along with than Nick. Reading <em>The Glass Key <\/em>has made me curious to finally read <em>The Thin Mas, <\/em>as well as <em>The Maltese Falcon<\/em> to compare the films with the novels.  I look forward to watching <em>The Glass Key, <\/em>even though I know I&#8217;m going to have a very difficult time imagining Alan Ladd as anybody other than Shane. I&#8217;ll add more on all of this after we begin the movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan you shake to fox-trot time, a Bronx to two-step time, a dry martini you always shake to waltz time.&#8221; ~The Thin Man One of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/2007\/01\/21\/ned-vs-nick\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/captcoldgrip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}