{"id":30944,"date":"2022-06-03T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/in-the-new-top-gun-maverick-dies-early-then-works-through-purgatory#id31933"},"modified":"2022-06-03T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:56:00","slug":"a-theory-to-explain-the-new-top-guns-flat-plotting-maverick-dies-early-then-works-through-a-purgatory-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/a-theory-to-explain-the-new-top-guns-flat-plotting-maverick-dies-early-then-works-through-a-purgatory-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"A theory to explain the new Top Gun\u2019s flat plotting: Maverick dies early, then works through a purgatory fantasy."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Despite being almost aggressively generic in terms of plotting it is also deeply personal, a window into the regrets of one of pop cinema&rsquo;s legendarily beloved characters. Maverick is at peace now.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/top-gun-maverick-review\/\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The Bulwark<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/in-the-new-top-gun-maverick-dies-early-then-works-through-purgatory\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Despite being almost aggressively generic in terms of plotting it is also deeply personal, a window into the regrets of one of pop cinema&rsquo;s legendarily beloved characters. Maverick is at peace now.<\/p>\n<p>        &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30945,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30944\/revisions\/30945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}