{"id":963,"date":"2005-01-02T15:12:47","date_gmt":"2005-01-02T15:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/01\/house_of_flying\/"},"modified":"2005-01-02T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2005-01-02T15:12:47","slug":"house_of_flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/house_of_flying\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Flying Daggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0385004\">The House of Flying Daggers<\/a> is Zhang Yimou&#8217;s latest film, except that unlike his last film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0299977\/\">Hero<\/a>, we haven&#8217;t had to wait three years to get it.<br \/>\nThe plot involves lots of double-crossing and a secret society &#8211; the House of Flying Daggers &#8211; of whom Ziyi Zhang is a member. She seems to be the blind daughter of the former head of the society.<br \/>\nThe film is beautiful to look at with some wonderful set pieces including a fight in a forest of bamboo, and finale that takes place in a blizzard.<br \/>\nI really enjoyed it, but somehow I was left slightly disappointed &#8211; it just didn&#8217;t grip me quite as much as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0190332\">Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/a> did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Flying Daggers is Zhang Yimou&#8217;s latest film, except that unlike his last film, Hero, we haven&#8217;t had to wait three years to get it. The plot involves lots of double-crossing and a secret society &#8211; the House of Flying Daggers &#8211; of whom Ziyi Zhang is a member. She seems to be [&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\/963"}],"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=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}