{"id":192,"date":"2003-01-27T23:32:46","date_gmt":"2003-01-27T23:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/01\/the_castle\/"},"modified":"2003-01-27T23:32:46","modified_gmt":"2003-01-27T23:32:46","slug":"the_castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/the_castle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We watched <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0118826\">this <\/a>1997 Aussie film to celebrate Australia Day. I&#8217;ve seen a bit of it before, but it&#8217;s a good example of what the Australians can do so well. They have character actors par excellence, and aren&#8217;t afraid to take the piss out of one another.<br \/>\nOK, so the ending is a tad melodramatic, and ever so obviously signposted ahead of time, but it&#8217;s the rest of the film that makes it so good. Indeed, you could remove the overall plot and the characters themselves would carry a Royle Family type sitcom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We watched this 1997 Aussie film to celebrate Australia Day. I&#8217;ve seen a bit of it before, but it&#8217;s a good example of what the Australians can do so well. They have character actors par excellence, and aren&#8217;t afraid to take the piss out of one another. OK, so the ending is a tad melodramatic, [&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\/192"}],"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=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}