{"id":260,"date":"2009-08-11T23:13:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T04:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=260"},"modified":"2009-08-11T23:13:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T04:13:29","slug":"julie-julia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=260","title":{"rendered":"Julie Julia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course I went to see the film!<\/p>\n<p>For those who might not have heard, Julie &amp; Julia\u201d is based on two true stories, those of Julia Child and how she came to change the way America cooks, and of Julie Powell, a 30ish New Yorker whose blog about attempting to cook in 365 days all 524 recipes in Child\u2019s \u201cMastering the Art of French Cooking\u201d became a phenomenon that led to her own book and now to this romantic comedy.<\/p>\n<p>Any film with a food theme interests me&#8230;in this case\u00a0 I found the food was secondary to the people, it was a prop, not a focus. So when people ask me if the film made me hungry&#8230;the answer is no&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Meryl Streep is amazing, she has the posture, the facial expressions and mostly the voice of Julia Child!!!<\/p>\n<p>I was left wanting more&#8230; The Julie story is cute&#8230;but it takes up too much screen time&#8230; what everyone wants to see is\u00a0 more of Julia, more of her story&#8230;and more of Meryl Streep&#8217;s acting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed it nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course I went to see the film! For those who might not have heard, Julie &amp; Julia\u201d is based on two true stories, those of Julia Child and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}