{"id":11445,"date":"2011-09-09T21:34:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T03:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=11445"},"modified":"2016-05-02T14:19:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T20:19:17","slug":"country-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=11445","title":{"rendered":"Country Strong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Harvest Moon<\/p>\n<p>Just watched Country Strong.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t savage it like the critics on Rotten Tomato, but I wouldn&#8217;t put it in a list of art house classics either.\u00a0 I liked the performances of Garret Hedlund and Tim McGraw though I didn&#8217;t like Tim McGraw as much as the critics did.\u00a0 Gwenyth Paltrow gave a gutsy, but melodramatic presentation of the failing country diva.<\/p>\n<p>The fragile country super star burdened the movie with a huge cliche and the drag on the plot kept it close to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Missable, but also watchable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Harvest Moon Just watched Country Strong.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t savage it like the critics on Rotten Tomato, but I wouldn&#8217;t put it in a list of art house classics either.\u00a0 I liked the performances of Garret Hedlund and Tim McGraw though I didn&#8217;t like Tim McGraw as much as the critics did.\u00a0 Gwenyth Paltrow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=11445\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Country Strong?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[3660,3659],"class_list":["post-11445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","tag-country-strong","tag-gwenyth-paltrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36441,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11445\/revisions\/36441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}