{"id":6401,"date":"2015-04-07T11:06:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T03:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6401"},"modified":"2015-04-07T11:06:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T03:06:21","slug":"vin-diesel-in-furious-7-the-actor-is-not-a-macho-lunkhead-hes-so-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/07\/vin-diesel-in-furious-7-the-actor-is-not-a-macho-lunkhead-hes-so-much-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Vin Diesel in Furious 7: The actor is not a macho lunkhead, he&#039;s so much more."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Diesel is not your standard \u201ctough guy.\u201d He is, first of all, a huge nerd. He\u2019s not just an avid Dungeons &amp; Dragons player; he wrote the foreword to the commemorative tome Thirty Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons &amp; Dragons. He told Jimmy Fallon that the game inspired him to become an actor. He taught Judi Dench how to play. He\u2019ll occasionally produce a critically-acclaimed, award-winning Xbox game. He made an animated film with the guy who created Aeon Flux. He loves Tolkien\u2019s The Silmarillion. He\u2019s spent most of his career desperately trying to make a movie about Hannibal\u2019s failed conquest of Rome.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2015\/04\/06\/vin_diesel_in_furious_7_the_actor_is_not_a_macho_lunkhead_he_s_so_much_more.html?wpsrc=fol_tw\">Vin Diesel in Furious 7: The actor is not a macho lunkhead, he&#8217;s so much more.<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diesel is not your standard \u201ctough guy.\u201d He is, first of all, a huge nerd. He\u2019s not just an avid Dungeons &amp; Dragons player; he wrote the foreword to the commemorative tome Thirty Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons &amp; Dragons. He told Jimmy Fallon that the game inspired him to become an actor. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/07\/vin-diesel-in-furious-7-the-actor-is-not-a-macho-lunkhead-hes-so-much-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vin Diesel in Furious 7: The actor is not a macho lunkhead, he&#039;s so much more.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}