{"id":549,"date":"2008-02-06T04:31:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T04:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=549"},"modified":"2022-02-25T20:27:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:27:14","slug":"guild-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/06\/guild-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"Guild Wars&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/guildwars.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-550\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>No doubt by now everyone knows what is happening in La-La Land these days &#8211; the Writers are on strike, and the studios won&#8217;t budge. I fully agree that if the writers are producing scripts for studios to make money off internet broadcasts, they should get their share of profits derived &#8211; of course I am just brushing the surface of the disagreement that is causing the WGA strike, but that is not the point of this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know where I live &#8211; my apartment is literally across from a Hollywood film set in downtown Los Angeles. I woke up one Saturday morning at 10:00a.m. to people screaming out the words from Bon Jovi&#8217;s &#8220;Living on a Prayer&#8221;. For a moment I thought perhaps American Idol decided to audition downstairs, only to discover that there was actually a protest downstairs and a shoot at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I observed was a sequence where the protesters, WGA-picket-waving individuals, would hold their megaphones and gongs but remain silent while the film crew was getting the set ready. The moment the director yells &#8220;action&#8221;, the megaphone broadcasts a rendition of Bon Jovi that would make William Hung proud, while his cohorts start banging on their gong while screaming like they&#8217;ve been robbed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I agree with what the strike is about, I am totally appalled by what these (specific) protesters were doing &#8211; not only are they protesting against their formal colleagues, but they are purposely sabotaging their livelihood. I would compare that to protesting across the street from a planned parenthood clinic versus stalking a patient to her workplace and announcing that the patient had just visited a planned parenthood clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I was a director and this happened to me, I would personally go over to find out who these individuals were, so that I can make a point to never work with them again, with or without a strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt by now everyone knows what is happening in La-La Land these days &#8211; the Writers are on strike, and the studios won&#8217;t budge. I fully agree that if the writers are producing scripts for studios to make money off internet broadcasts, they should get their share of profits derived &#8211; of course I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/guildwars.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}