{"id":9664,"date":"2019-07-24T18:55:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T22:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9664"},"modified":"2019-07-24T18:55:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T22:55:58","slug":"tears-in-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9664","title":{"rendered":"Tears in rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rutger_Hauer\">Rutger Hauer<\/a> was a Dutch actor. He is best known perhaps for his role in the science-fiction cult classic Blade Runner, in particular for his improvised <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tears_in_rain_monologue\"><em>tears in rain<\/em> soliloquy<\/a>, spoken by the character Roy Batty just before his death:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 1em;\"><em>I&#8217;ve seen things you people wouldn&#8217;t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannh\u00e4user Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HU7Ga7qTLDU?t=56\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I just learned that Hauer himself died a few days ago, after a brief illness, at age 75.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9664' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rutger Hauer was a Dutch actor. He is best known perhaps for his role in the science-fiction cult classic Blade Runner, in particular for his improvised tears in rain soliloquy, spoken by the character Roy Batty just before his death: I&#8217;ve seen things you people wouldn&#8217;t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=9664' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-23-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9664"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9672,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9664\/revisions\/9672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}