{"id":167,"date":"2002-12-30T22:38:30","date_gmt":"2002-12-30T22:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2002\/12\/sweet_home_alab\/"},"modified":"2002-12-30T22:38:30","modified_gmt":"2002-12-30T22:38:30","slug":"sweet_home_alab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/sweet_home_alab\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Home Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure why I went to see <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0256415\">this<\/a>. I do think that Reece Witherspoon is an excellent actress, and if <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0126886\">Election<\/a> is cheap on DVD I&#8217;ll get hold of a copy. Aside from the fact that I had a voucher to get me in free which expires tomorrow, the reason was <a href=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/News_Story\/Critic_Review\/Observer_review\/0,4267,864253,00.html\">this review<\/a> from Philip French of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.co.uk\">The Observer<\/a><\/i>. I am of course already tracking down a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/067473906X\">Pursuits of Happiness<\/a>. Any reference to the classic screwball comedies from the Hollywood of yesterday is probably enough to make me check it out.<br \/>\nSo this is overlong, and not nearly as full of one-liners as those films were, but not as bad as it could have been. Oh dear &#8211; that&#8217;s not exactly a ringing endorsement is it. I guess I thought that the Alabama characters were just a little bit too forgiving after Witherspoon&#8217;s character was well and truly foul to them. And a few more gags along the way would have been welcome. The sheriff was the only really funny character and more of him would have been welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure why I went to see this. I do think that Reece Witherspoon is an excellent actress, and if Election is cheap on DVD I&#8217;ll get hold of a copy. Aside from the fact that I had a voucher to get me in free which expires tomorrow, the reason was this review from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}