{"id":2917,"date":"2011-02-01T18:04:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T08:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2011-02-02T11:46:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T01:46:35","slug":"getting-more-puritanical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2917","title":{"rendered":"Getting more puritanical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/easyridercover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2929\" title=\"Easy Rider\" src=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/easyridercover.jpg\" alt=\"Easy Rider\" width=\"220\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a>I have just received the Blu-ray version of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064276\/\">Easy Rider<\/a><\/em> from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Thanks Sony! One immediate and obvious difference from the DVD: this disc is rated MA rather than the M at which my DVD copy is rated. IMDB <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064276\/parentalguide\">reports<\/a> that it was re-rated in 2009. The &#8216;MA&#8217; label says &#8216;Drug Use&#8217; by way of explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, movies that used to be rated &#8216;R&#8217; for violence back in the 70s have been downgraded (eg. &#8216;MA&#8217; for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0066999\/parentalguide\">Dirty Harry<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060196\/parentalguide\">The Good, the Bad and the Ugly<\/a><\/em>). Funny how standards change over the years.<\/p>\n<p>[Non-Australians: &#8216;M&#8217; means not recommended for people under 15, &#8216;MA&#8217; means people under 15 can&#8217;t enter or buy unless accompanied by an adult, &#8216;R&#8217; means no admittance or sale to a person under 18.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update (2 February 2011):<\/strong> I&#8217;ve added the pack shot for this title. Last night I ripped frames from both Blu-ray and DVD, and I plan to do a comparison soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just received the Blu-ray version of Easy Rider from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Thanks Sony! One immediate and obvious difference from the DVD: this disc is rated MA rather than the M at which my DVD copy is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2917\">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":[],"categories":[3,31,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}