{"id":2311,"date":"2007-11-10T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2007-11-10T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T14:09:00","slug":"desert-island-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2311","title":{"rendered":"Desert Island DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked the other night what one film I would take with me to watch on the proverbial desert island, and my instant answer was &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0175880\/\">Magnolia<\/a>&#8216;. Which I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d change on further reflection, though I might wish to have more! Came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturesnob.com\/2007\/11\/the_blossom_jim_kurring\">this lovely  post<\/a> which explains one element in it. I&#8217;m aware that some people can&#8217;t cope with the film, but it remains to my mind one of the most profoundly orthodox and gracious films I&#8217;ve ever seen. One day I might write a really long review of it &#8211; I&#8217;d focus on the prologue, in the same way that my thoughts about the fourth gospel focus on John 1 &#8211; it goes that deep.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked the other night what one film I would take with me to watch on the proverbial desert island, and my instant answer was &#8216;Magnolia&#8216;. Which I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d change on further reflection, though I might wish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2311\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Bh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}