{"id":324,"date":"2010-08-06T15:13:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T20:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/08\/06\/100806_bitterenders\/"},"modified":"2010-08-06T15:13:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T20:13:15","slug":"100806_bitterenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/08\/06\/100806_bitterenders\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Bitter Enders"},"content":{"rendered":"

I enjoyed this article<\/a> about folks who sit all the way through movie end credits. Debbie and I fall squarely in the category of “bitter enders,” rarely missing the final credits. We’re usually looking for outtakes or “Easter eggs,” but we also enjoy reading the obscure job titles of people who work on movies. I’d like to think that we’re showing the assistant gaffer a bit of appreciation for her hard work at, uh, gaffing, and recognizing (or at least guessing at) the significant impact that work had on the movie we just watched.<\/p>\n

I wish more movie reviews were sensitive to the needs of bitter enders by including something like “stay for the credits” (no need for spoilers) or “there’s nothing in the credits but credits.” We wouldn’t change our habits based on those tips, but it might expand the ranks of our small but dedicated cadre.<\/p>\n

Of course, ushers would be less pleased, but that’s why they make the big bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I enjoyed this article about folks who sit all the way through movie end credits. Debbie and I fall squarely in the category of “bitter enders,” rarely missing the final credits. We’re usually looking for outtakes or “Easter eggs,” but we also enjoy reading the obscure job titles of people who work on movies. I’d… Continue reading In Praise of Bitter Enders<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}