{"id":3314,"date":"2021-12-31T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2021-12-31T04:26:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T09:26:18","slug":"retrosomething-cecil-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/?p=3314","title":{"rendered":"[RETROSOMETHING] Cecil Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We did it! We got through December, and even as you read this, Rob and I are getting ready for 2022 episodes&#8230; so as we say good-bye to this year that was, overall, a year that occurred &#8211; let me just throw a couple of things out there.\u00a0<br \/>1 &#8211; Thank you to each and every one of you that have joined us on our podcasting journey<br \/>2 &#8211; Thank you Rob for keeping me on track in all things Something.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s get to my last retroepisode, which isn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>too<\/em> Retro, but I couldn&#8217;t do a list of my favorite episodes without revisiting the little ball of hate that this episode brought to life. It is the Review of &#8216;Cecil Hotel&#8217; a Netflix documentary that .. well.. it spawned some opinions.\u00a0 From March 9th, 2021 &#8211; The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, enjoy!<\/p>\r\n<p>Our original post:<br \/><em>Do you dig murder?\u00a0 I mean&#8230; not\u00a0like that&#8230; but do you find yourself mindlessly addicted to documentaries about the horrible things that horrible people do to people?<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em>Yeah, look, we all do. That said, there is a new one on Netflix, but the results aren&#8217;t precisely what you think they are. The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel takes a police procedural documentary and turns it on its ear with the focus moving from the important facts of the case and sliding on over to an entirely different topic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em>Is it good? Is it worth it? We have opinions&#8230;. oh boy, do we. And once you are done, be certain to check out Hatton&#8217;s article on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vocal.media\/criminal\/the-problem-with-netflix-s-cecil-hotel\">Vocal.Media<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph --><\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em>Okaaaay here we go!<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em><!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph {\"style\":{\"typography\":{\"fontSize\":19}}} --><\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><em><strong><a class=\"wpaudio\" href=\"http:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/www.somethingcast.com\/episodes\/123121retrocast8.mp3\">Full Episode<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did it! We got through December, and even as you read this, Rob and I are getting ready for 2022 episodes&#8230; so as we say good-bye to this year that was, overall, a year that occurred &#8211; let me just throw a couple of things out there.\u00a0<br \/>1 &#8211; Thank you to each and every one of you that have joined us on our podcasting journey<br \/>2 &#8211; Thank you Rob for keeping me on track in all things Something.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s get to my last retroepisode, which isn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>too<\/em> Retro, but I couldn&#8217;t do a list of my favorite episodes without revisiting the little ball of hate that this episode brought to life. It is the Review of &#8216;Cecil Hotel&#8217; a Netflix documentary that .. well.. it spawned some opinions.\u00a0 From March 9th, 2021 &#8211; The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>Our original post:<br \/><em>Do you dig murder?\u00a0 I mean&#8230; not\u00a0like that&#8230; but do you find yourself mindlessly addicted to documentaries about the horrible things that horrible people do to people?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Yeah, look, we all do. That said, there is a new one on Netflix, but the results aren&#8217;t precisely what you think they are. The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel takes a police procedural documentary and turns it on its ear with the focus moving from the important facts of the case and sliding on over to an entirely different topic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Is it good? Is it worth it? We have opinions&#8230;. oh boy, do we. And once you are done, be certain to check out Hatton&#8217;s article on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vocal.media\/criminal\/the-problem-with-netflix-s-cecil-hotel\">Vocal.Media<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Okaaaay here we go!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph {\"style\":{\"typography\":{\"fontSize\":19}}} --><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><em><strong><a class=\"wpaudio\" href=\"http:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/www.somethingcast.com\/episodes\/123121retrocast8.mp3\">Full Episode<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[224,220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3320,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions\/3320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}