{"id":60,"date":"2011-07-12T19:57:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T02:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harperkingsley.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/12\/useless-trivia-approaching-zero\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:38:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:38:43","slug":"useless-trivia-approaching-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/useless-trivia-approaching-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Useless Trivia: Approaching Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thought I might mention that the character of Greg in &#8220;Approaching Zero&#8221; was loosely based on Griff from &#8220;Another Gay Movie.&#8221;&nbsp; I just thought Griff was so adorable&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> I really need to watch that movie again.&nbsp; Sure, the humor was vulgar and over the top in a lot of places, but underneath there was a cute coming of age story buried under everything else.&nbsp; Plus, at the time I watched it, my then-roommate Doug said when he was in high school there was a girl in his class exactly like Muffler.&nbsp; He was still kind of boggled at how she managed to hook up with so many hot girls.&nbsp; It made me laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought I might mention that the character of Greg in &#8220;Approaching Zero&#8221; was loosely based on Griff from &#8220;Another Gay Movie.&#8221;&nbsp; I just thought Griff was so adorable&#8230; I really need to watch that movie again.&nbsp; Sure, the humor was vulgar and over the top in a lot of places, but underneath there was a&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/useless-trivia-approaching-zero\/\" title=\"Useless Trivia: Approaching Zero\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Useless Trivia: Approaching Zero<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[138,732],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-upcoming-projects","tag-approaching-zero","tag-trivia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-Y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":97,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/3-hour-marathon-nice\/","url_meta":{"origin":60,"position":0},"title":"3 hour marathon? nice!","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"August 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I totally can't wait for the Venture Brothers 3 hour marathon. 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