{"id":3578,"date":"2009-12-31T16:56:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3578"},"modified":"2009-12-31T16:56:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T00:56:08","slug":"last-minute-holiday-cheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/last-minute-holiday-cheer\/","title":{"rendered":"Last-minute holiday cheer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone is looking for a final holiday treat, I highly recommend the animated movie <em>Fantastic Mr. Fox<\/em>, which I review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2009\/bc1230hm.html\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Don\u2019t think that you need to have a child in tow to see it; its satire of the urbane modern personality is hilarious; the dialogue is marvelously witty; and the soundtrack pulses with energy.\u00a0 If you need a message, evolutionary biologists will cheer its moral that one\u2019s nature is inbred.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI adore cartoons and every other type of animated film, because they display the human imagination at its apex of creativity, liberated from such unnecessary drags as gravity and every other law of the universe.\u00a0 And they show the director\u2019s knowledge of human expressiveness, since his actors do nothing by instinct.\u00a0 He must explicitly command every pregnant pause, every ironic arch of an eyebrow.\u00a0\u00a0 We live in an age of great animators, one of many things to feel\u00a0optimistic \u00a0about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone is looking for a final holiday treat, I highly recommend the animated movie Fantastic Mr. Fox, which I review here.\u00a0 Don\u2019t think that you need to have a child in tow to see it; its satire of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/last-minute-holiday-cheer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[434,433],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3581,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions\/3581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}