{"id":26608,"date":"2017-08-13T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/?p=26608"},"modified":"2017-08-12T20:08:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T20:08:21","slug":"the-philadelphia-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/08\/13\/the-philadelphia-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came back in from dog walking yesterday to find Mum watching the end of The Philadelphia Story. My it was yar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s coming up for 80 years old now so there shouldn&#8217;t be spoilers. Katharine Hepburn is a spoiled socialite about to marry new money. Cary Grant is her ex-husband. James Stewart is the reporter covering the forthcoming nuptials. Let the games commence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s beautiful, the performances are perfect, the dialogue is quick and witty and it&#8217;s funny. Hepburn is a brat. Rude, entitled, judgemental and snobbish. And she remains a brat, albeit she does have her edges rubbed off.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is not a film where there is a makeover montage and the heroine is completely redesigned before she is lovable. This is a film where the heroine is a difficult, challenging, firecracker of a woman, who has to face up to her flaws and is loved because of them, not in spite of them. Three bloody cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came back in from dog walking yesterday to find Mum watching the end of The Philadelphia Story. My it was yar. &nbsp; It&#8217;s coming up for 80 years old now so there shouldn&#8217;t be spoilers. Katharine Hepburn is a spoiled socialite about to marry new money. Cary Grant is her ex-husband. James Stewart is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25,20,17,49,56],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Philadelphia_Story.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26610,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26608\/revisions\/26610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}