{"id":153,"date":"2006-07-10T09:54:30","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T09:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=153"},"modified":"2015-07-06T20:44:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T01:44:32","slug":"big_screen_prai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/07\/big_screen_prai.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen:  Prairie Home Companion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You do not need to be a fan of Garrison Keillor, or Lake Woebegone, or Prairie Home Companion itself, to like this movie.  You do need to be a fan of folky\/country music, laid-back often-only-funny-in-very-obscure-ways Midwestern humor and meandering circling back and forth story lines.  If you liked &#8220;A Mighty Wind&#8221;, you will probably like this.<\/p>\n<p>It was poignant, and sweet, and funny, and charming, and I quite enjoyed the movie overall and Meryl Streep in particular.  (My mom apparently connected with Lindsay Lohan&#8217;s character the most.  If you could have heard how my Dad described that to me&#8230;PRICELESS.)<\/p>\n<p>Oh and the songs Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly sing&#8230;and their characters in general&#8230;what a HOOT!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You do not need to be a fan of Garrison Keillor, or Lake Woebegone, or Prairie Home Companion itself, to like this movie. You do need to be a fan of folky\/country music, laid-back often-only-funny-in-very-obscure-ways Midwestern humor and meandering circling &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2006\/07\/big_screen_prai.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}