{"id":2850,"date":"2014-12-20T08:40:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2014-12-20T08:41:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:41:34","slug":"love-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2014\/12\/love-actually.html","title":{"rendered":"Love Actually."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although I have watched this movie numerous times, and will probably continue to do so*, I pretty much agree with every single thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2013\/12\/-em-love-actually-em-is-the-least-romantic-film-of-all-time\/282091\/\" target=\"_blank\">this (long) article<\/a> details about its true non-romanticness.  Especially this: <\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2013\/12\/-em-love-actually-em-is-the-least-romantic-film-of-all-time\/282091\/3\/\" target=\"_blank\">The fundamental problem with Love Actually is that it presents romance as either absurdly easy\u2014something that strikes you like a thunderclap and requires only a single grand gesture in order to be fulfilled\u2014or all but impossible. Notably absent is the idea that love might ever be worth a little sustained effort: some mutual exploration and discovery, a bit of care and nurture, maybe even the overcoming of an obstacle or two.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>*I really watch it because I enjoy the Hugh Grant performance so much. It is a nice pairing with either <strong>Two Weeks Notice<\/strong> OR <strong>Music and Lyrics<\/strong>, both charming lovely movies.<\/p>\n<p>p.s. I just rewatched it last night after totally cracking up over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unfoRETTAble\/status\/546077812898410496\" target=\"_blank\">this tweet (&#038; video)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I have watched this movie numerous times, and will probably continue to do so*, I pretty much agree with every single thing this (long) article details about its true non-romanticness. Especially this: The fundamental problem with Love Actually is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2014\/12\/love-actually.html\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-watchin","category-world_wide_wonderfuls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}