{"id":25504,"date":"2014-04-12T22:03:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T04:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=25504"},"modified":"2016-05-07T11:08:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T17:08:58","slug":"catching-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=25504","title":{"rendered":"Catching Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \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 Bee Hiving Moon<\/p>\n<p>And, in the evening we saw the Hunger Games: \u00a0Catching Fire. \u00a0I read these books quite a while ago and enjoyed them. \u00a0They combine a clever teen fighting for her life and the life of those she loves with a dystopian future modeled on ancient Rome. \u00a0The movies are flashy because the books offer up great visuals. \u00a0In fact, one of my favorite parts of this movie was the sequence at President Snow&#8217;s home where the capital&#8217;s gliterati were out in all their decadent attire. \u00a0It reminded me of the French era when women would wear representations of naval engagements in their hair.<\/p>\n<p>The Quarter Quell game itself was less interesting, kill or be killed on screen is a teen version of the movie where some bored white guys hunt street people for fun. \u00a0It plays better in a book where the inner lives of the characters are clearer.<\/p>\n<p>This is a movie about making money from movies, but it was entertaining in its way. \u00a0It was not, however, profound. \u00a0And it might have wanted to be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \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 Bee Hiving Moon And, in the evening we saw the Hunger Games: \u00a0Catching Fire. \u00a0I read these books quite a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=25504\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Catching Fire<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-25504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25504","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=25504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38550,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25504\/revisions\/38550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}