{"id":1563,"date":"2007-12-22T05:30:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2007-12-22T05:30:40","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T12:30:40","slug":"omfg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1563","title":{"rendered":"O.M.F.G!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are only TWO things I have ever prayed for that wasn&#8217;t something that was NEEDED.\u00a0 You know, like&#8230;let my mother live until I get there, watch over so-and-so as they go through surgery&#8230;stuff that&#8217;s &#8216;needed&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>These two things&#8230;these two tiny self indulgent requests\u00a0 I have prayed for have been over looked by UPPERCASE GOD for decades.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t want to believe he wasn&#8217;t listening, because HELLO&#8230;how many nights can I lay there praying for them and he not hear me?<\/p>\n<p>HE FINALLY HEARD ME! UPPERCASE GOD LOVES ME!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I guess you need to know what those two prayers were, right?<\/p>\n<p>1. They cast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000450\/\"><strong>Philip Seymour Hoffman<\/strong><\/a> as Ignatius J. Riley in the movie based on the book <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Confederacy_of_Dunces\"><strong>&#8220;A Confederacy of Dunces&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nThis request has fallen on deaf ears.\u00a0 I am just happy that Will Ferrell will NOT be doing it.\u00a0 Baby steps, Hollywood. Baby steps.<\/p>\n<p>2. They make a sequel to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmfodder.com\/scifi\/archives\/2007\/01\/real_genius.shtml\">My Favorite Movie That Has Ever Been Made<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you. I was looking for a reason to live&#8230;and it has been handed to me on a silver platter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;See, Kristine&#8230;life does get better.\u00a0 Sure, you&#8217;re broke, depressed, out of medication, your tooth is chipped and causing shooting pain through your jaw and the car is being held together with dried soda syrup and French fry dust&#8230;BUT THERE WILL BE MORE CHRIS KNIGHT!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We can all rest well now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are only TWO things I have ever prayed for that wasn&#8217;t something that was NEEDED.\u00a0 You know, like&#8230;let my mother live until I get there, watch over so-and-so as they go through surgery&#8230;stuff that&#8217;s &#8216;needed&#8217;. These two things&#8230;these two tiny self indulgent requests\u00a0 I have prayed for have been over looked by UPPERCASE GOD for decades.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t want to believe he wasn&#8217;t listening, because HELLO&#8230;how many nights can I lay there praying for them and he not hear me? HE FINALLY HEARD ME! UPPERCASE GOD LOVES ME! Oh, I guess you need to know what those two prayers were, right? 1. They cast Philip Seymour Hoffman as Ignatius J. Riley in the movie based on the book &#8220;A Confederacy of Dunces&#8221; This request has fallen on deaf ears.\u00a0 I am just happy that Will Ferrell will NOT be doing it.\u00a0 Baby steps, Hollywood. Baby steps. 2. They make a sequel to My Favorite Movie That Has Ever Been Made. Thank you. I was looking for a reason to live&#8230;and it has been handed to me on a silver platter. &#8220;See, Kristine&#8230;life does get better.\u00a0 Sure, you&#8217;re broke, depressed, out of medication, your tooth is chipped and causing shooting pain through your jaw and the car is being held together with dried soda syrup and French fry dust&#8230;BUT THERE WILL BE MORE CHRIS KNIGHT!&#8221; We can all rest well now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}