{"id":2049,"date":"2012-06-07T16:08:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T20:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2012-09-26T20:55:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T00:55:04","slug":"movienight-season-finale-thursday-june-7th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"The Sound of Music ushers in the period of no MovieNight."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2057\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?attachment_id=2057\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2057\" title=\"The hills are indeed alive!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/music.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/music.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/music-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Location: Austrian alps. Pretty, free-spirited (dare I say &#8220;Maverick&#8221;?) nun sent from convent to be governess to seven unruly, motherless children. Handsome, aristocratic father rules his children with totalitarian authority. Wealthy, cold-hearted sophisticate contrives to marry the father. Meanwhile, the Nazi machine has taken over Austria in the &#8220;Anschluss&#8221;, and there are bad guys everywhere. On top of all this, the cast is singing frequently throughout the practically three-hour duration. How could this be good?<\/p>\n<p>Somehow it is. Somehow it&#8217;s marvelous. <em>The Sound of Music<\/em> made a perfect finale to our MovieNight season! Some of our guests had never seen it&#8230; they were lucky to see the crisp and colorful Blu ray transfer, rather than stumble upon it in a late-night television presentation. Julie Andrews charmed us, of course. When Flea took exception (seemingly&#8230; he&#8217;s not <em>that<\/em> smart) to a line about animals and started barking at the screen, we wept with laughter.<\/p>\n<p>After the movie, we gave away a lot of lovely raffle prizes, and Acacia eventually managed to destroy the pinata that Betty-Sue had generously supplied. Another great MovieNight season finale!<\/p>\n<p>Until September&#8230; so long, farewell, Auf wiedersehen, adieu&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb  <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0059742\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-348\" title=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"imdb\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Austrian alps. Pretty, free-spirited (dare I say &#8220;Maverick&#8221;?) nun sent from convent to be governess to seven unruly, motherless children. Handsome, aristocratic father rules his children with totalitarian authority. Wealthy, cold-hearted sophisticate contrives to marry the father. Meanwhile, the Nazi machine has taken over Austria in the &#8220;Anschluss&#8221;, and there are bad guys everywhere. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=2049\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sound of Music ushers in the period of no MovieNight.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}