{"id":500,"date":"2003-12-01T20:11:15","date_gmt":"2003-12-01T20:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/12\/master_and_comm\/"},"modified":"2003-12-01T20:11:15","modified_gmt":"2003-12-01T20:11:15","slug":"master_and_comm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/master_and_comm\/","title":{"rendered":"Master and Commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The novels of Patrick O&#8217;Brian are the preferred reading of a significant part of the population &#8211; and previously I&#8217;ve thought them to be a type of Telegraph reader.<br \/>\nAnyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0311113\/\">this film<\/a> comes along, and despite what I thought was a quite dreadful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/fox\/master_and_commander\/\">trailer<\/a>, I went along anyway.<br \/>\nI have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed this boys own romp. It&#8217;s very well put together and the way they welded together special effects, models and real boats was totally seamless. I simply couldn&#8217;t tell.<br \/>\nI like to think that I learnt a great deal about life on these boats, and it felt real. Very male, but I will give the books a go at some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The novels of Patrick O&#8217;Brian are the preferred reading of a significant part of the population &#8211; and previously I&#8217;ve thought them to be a type of Telegraph reader. Anyway, this film comes along, and despite what I thought was a quite dreadful trailer, I went along anyway. I have to say that I thoroughly [&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\/500"}],"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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}