{"id":2280,"date":"2012-12-18T13:46:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T18:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2013-01-03T20:02:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T01:02:35","slug":"movienight-thursday-december-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=2280","title":{"rendered":"Beasts of the Southern Wild. Nice one, Benh."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2288\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?attachment_id=2288\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2288\" title=\"Just fishin' papa.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/beasts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/beasts.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/beasts-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Beasts of the Southern Wild<\/em> is a remarkable first feature from Benh (what the h?) Zeitlin whom, I recently discovered, is &#8220;fianc\u00c3\u00a9d&#8221; to an old friend of mine (actually not so old for goodness sake&#8230; Benh is barely 30 years old himself!) and , hands-down, our favorite movie of 2012.\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Moonrise Kingdom<\/em> came a close second.<\/p>\n<p>This season of MovieNight has been somewhat erratic, what with Thursday-night conflicts, elections, super-storms, etc., but when I look back at what we&#8217;ve screened so far, I can&#8217;t help but feel proud. What does 2013 have in store for us? By the way, it looks like the Mayans just figured enough was enough. : )<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes for the New Year to you all!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2125435\/\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beasts of the Southern Wild is a remarkable first feature from Benh (what the h?) Zeitlin whom, I recently discovered, is &#8220;fianc\u00c3\u00a9d&#8221; to an old friend of mine (actually not so old for goodness sake&#8230; Benh is barely 30 years old himself!) and , hands-down, our favorite movie of 2012.\u00c2\u00a0 Moonrise Kingdom came a close &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=2280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beasts of the Southern Wild. Nice one, Benh.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2298,"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\/2280"}],"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=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}