{"id":4503,"date":"2006-07-16T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:04:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T06:04:48","slug":"mclintock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4503","title":{"rendered":"McLintock!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"121\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mclintock.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p> Drawing on the plot of Shakespeare\u2019s <i>The Taming of the Shrew<\/i>, <i>Mclintock<\/i> shows you what the fourth of July was like in the Wild West. They did not have fireworks but plenty of fun. The Wild West in this film is a comedy land. The place is Arizona and it is dry. My historical knowledge is inadequate to understand why the West was so romanticized in American culture. The land from from Utah to California is not particularly lushes. Why would I want to move there if I am on lushes green land on the East Coast?\u00a0 Perhaps it was the availability of free land that gave a lot of people the opportunity to become economically self-sufficient, which was not possible in Europe.\u00a0 How little I knew about the historical Wild West became clear after I read the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wild_west\">article<\/a> on the subject in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wild_west\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing on the plot of Shakespeare\u2019s The Taming of the Shrew, Mclintock shows you what the fourth of July was like in the Wild West. <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4503\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mclintock.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"100\" height=\"121\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-movies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5535,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions\/5535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}