{"id":1132,"date":"2009-01-15T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T03:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2013-01-11T17:45:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T23:45:12","slug":"movie-of-the-week-ghost-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/movie-of-the-week-ghost-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie of the Week: <em>Ghost Town<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As an old-movie fan, I&#8217;m always a little leery when one of the kids brings home a <em>new<\/em> movie from Blockbuster, but Ida hit the jackpot with <strong><a title=\"Ghost Town\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0995039\/\">Ghost Town<\/a><\/strong>. It starts out with Greg Kinnear getting hit by a bus, and only gets better. I kept waiting for it to miss a beat, or devolve into something wretched, but it was top-notch from beginning to end, funny and poignant all at the same time. This, for me, a person who usually rents movies for free from the library, is the ultimate recommendation: It&#8217;s worth buying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an old-movie fan, I&#8217;m always a little leery when one of the kids brings home a new movie from Blockbuster, but Ida hit the jackpot with Ghost Town. It starts out with Greg Kinnear getting hit by a bus, and only gets better. I kept waiting for it to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Movie of the Week: Ghost Town - Politickles","description":"As an old-movie fan, I'm always a little leery when one of the kids brings home a new movie from Blockbuster, but Ida hit the jackpot with Ghost Town . It start"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[175,722,173],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-films","tag-ghost-town","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}