{"id":1194,"date":"2009-03-17T12:02:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T17:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:37:22","slug":"i-may-never-have-to-teach-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2009\/03\/i-may-never-have-to-teach-again\/","title":{"rendered":"I may never have to teach again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Chinese movie industry gears up for a biopic on <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/7945828.stm\">Confucius<\/a> I get closer and closer to my goal of never having to do any work.\u00a0 Soon I will be able to just show movies.\u00a0 Given that they have cast Chow Yun-fat in the lead I hope they end up doing a gritty <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Behind_The_Music\">Behind the Music<\/a> type of thing. That would actually make some sense.\u00a0 Chinese netizens are already unhappy that this will distort the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/03\/china-backs-biopic-of-confucius\/\">true story<\/a> of Confucius&#8221; but given that we have almost no reliable information on his life I suppose they will just be making things up. A life of idealism, with brief and limited fame slowly being drowned in long, bitter dissapointment (without drugs, in his case) would seem about right. Maybe they will do a Han-type uncrowned King version of Big C? Get E. Bruce Brooks to consult? Who will play Yen Hui? Does Gong Li have to be in this one, and if so what does she play?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Chinese movie industry gears up for a biopic on Confucius I get closer and closer to my goal of never having to do any work.\u00a0 Soon I will be able to just show movies.\u00a0 Given that they have cast Chow Yun-fat in the lead I hope they end up doing a gritty Behind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[165,112,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-current-events","category-pre-han"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-jg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4707,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/4707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}