{"id":4284,"date":"2023-10-23T07:56:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T03:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4284"},"modified":"2023-10-23T07:56:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T03:56:48","slug":"old-dads-isnt-exactly-old-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4284","title":{"rendered":"Old Dads isn&#8217;t exactly old school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest movie on Netflix right now is\u00a0<em>Old Dads<\/em>, directed by and starring Bill Burr. Gen X dads butting heads with Millennial dads? That&#8217;s got the potential for comic gold, right?<\/p>\n<p>For better or worse old Bill gives us some sappy moments and dare I say &#8220;enlightened&#8221; wisdom interspersed among his 20th century eye rolls.<\/p>\n<p>(Pause for reflection.)<\/p>\n<p>But the eye rolls are the funniest parts. And I would rather hear 102 minutes of Bill Burr standup than what was basically your average 21st century movie. I didn&#8217;t need a morality play; I just wanted to laugh.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already been to enough sensitivity trainings. I don&#8217;t need one run by Bill Burr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest movie on Netflix right now is\u00a0Old Dads, directed by and starring Bill Burr. Gen X dads butting heads with Millennial dads? That&#8217;s got the potential for comic gold, right? For better or worse old Bill gives us some &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4284\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4285,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions\/4285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}