{"id":13,"date":"2003-07-15T15:23:44","date_gmt":"2003-07-15T19:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-10-08T02:22:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T06:22:50","slug":"best-beatdown-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"best beatdown ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so i got to thinking while watching <i>High Fidelity<\/i> on Comedy Central last night&#8230; which is the better (if not the best ever) beatdown scene in a movie. There&#8217;s something about the heel-stomping, bat-swinging, raw-white-collar raging destruction of a printer in <i>Office Space<\/i>, and then there&#8217;s the classic one-two old school telephone\/window air conditioner thrashing laid down on Tim Robbins in <i>High Fidelity<\/i>. both have their bonus points, the latter for the ingenious use of random appliances to beat a pinko commie freak to a pulp. (And I bet Robbins hasn&#8217;t been that sore since the last time Susan Sarandon broke out the strap-on). On the other hand, who among us hasn&#8217;t dreamed of\/attempted\/carried out the type of unabashed peripheral abuse in <i>Office Space<\/i>? tough call, but I think I&#8217;m going to have to lean toward <i>High Fidelity<\/i> in this one.<\/p>\n<p>though give me pre-mom Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jennifer Aniston and a pool of Cool Whip, and I&#8217;ll be a happy man regardless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so i got to thinking while watching High Fidelity on Comedy Central last night&#8230; which is the better (if not the best ever) beatdown scene in a movie. There&#8217;s something about the heel-stomping, bat-swinging, raw-white-collar raging destruction of a printer in Office Space, and then there&#8217;s the classic one-two old school telephone\/window air conditioner thrashing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/?p=13\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">best beatdown ever<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haveyoumettony.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}