{"id":21,"date":"2008-11-07T14:48:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T18:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-11-18T11:30:57","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T15:30:57","slug":"guess-whos-coming-to-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Guess Who&#8217;s Coming to Dinner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/images\/guess.jpg\" alt=\"A white girl?!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How funny that so many references in this movie from 1967 should be ironic and meaningful today, particularly Sydney Poitier&#8217;s hope that one day, his (yet-unconceived) mixed-race child could grow up to be the president of the USA. Thanks to the bumper crowd who turned up to enjoy this one, riding high on a wave of post-election euphoria.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0061735\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/movienight.richardlohr.com\/images\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"IMDB\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Other noteworthy events of the evening:<\/strong><br \/>\n-The prototypical, home-made, fold-up sofas had their MN debut, and were reported to be comfortable.<br \/>\n-Clinton did &#8220;The Hustle&#8221;.<br \/>-Karlis&#8217; wait time returned to &#8220;normal&#8221;, after a month-long surge of quickness. Sorry!<\/p>\n<p>The champagne happy hour was so successful that we&#8217;re thinking of making it a regular feature. Whaddaya think, folks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How funny that so many references in this movie from 1967 should be ironic and meaningful today, particularly Sydney Poitier&#8217;s hope that one day, his (yet-unconceived) mixed-race child could grow up to be the president of the USA. Thanks to the bumper crowd who turned up to enjoy this one, riding high on a wave &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=21\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guess Who&#8217;s Coming to Dinner?<\/span> <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":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"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=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}