{"id":17755,"date":"2013-01-01T20:58:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T02:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=17755"},"modified":"2016-05-10T10:28:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:28:15","slug":"going-to-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=17755","title":{"rendered":"Going to the Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter \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 Moon of the Winter Solstice<\/p>\n<p>Kate and I saw Les Miserables and Django Unchained today, our new year&#8217;s party. \u00a0Afterward we had dinner at Tanner&#8217;s, a restaurant near the theatre. \u00a0A fun start to the new year.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve probably read the reviews, but if you haven&#8217;t, both of these movies are worth seeing. \u00a0Les Mis is a known tear jerker and this one lived up to that reputation at several spots. \u00a0I found Valjean&#8217;s doggedness as a father and the revolutionary French youth at the barricades especially moving.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, angry, sensitive, homage and satirical at turns Django shows Tarantino for the great director that he is.\u00a0Django Unchained is a swipe at the Western, the fate of black actors in movies and the bounty hunting trade. \u00a0Christopher Waltz as Dr. King Schulz and Jamie Foxx as Django have great chemistry, forming an unlikely team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter \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 Moon of the Winter Solstice Kate and I saw Les Miserables and Django Unchained today, our new year&#8217;s party. \u00a0Afterward we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=17755\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Going to the Movies<\/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":[237,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17755","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=17755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39568,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17755\/revisions\/39568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}