{"id":19325,"date":"2016-03-10T17:18:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T16:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19325"},"modified":"2016-03-10T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T16:20:09","slug":"how-to-cover-war-and-peace-in-six-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19325","title":{"rendered":"How to cover &#8220;War And Peace&#8221; in six hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18900\">a posting<\/a>\u00a0explaining that I was never going to read Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s mammoth novel<em> &#8220;War And Peace&#8221;,<\/em> but that I was looking forward to watching the BBC television adaptation of the book.<\/p>\n<p>The adaptation was in the form of six one-hour episodes broadcast a week at a time, but this week &#8211; at last &#8211; I watched the whole series over just three consecutive evenings which was a good way to comprehend the many characters and story lines.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot be sure how faithful and fair an adaptation this was, but I was very impressed by the acting and cinematography and admired the costumes and locations. As a guide to the characters and the actors playing them, I found useful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/news\/2016-01-31\/meet-the-cast-of-war-and-peace\">this guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, I did a posting\u00a0explaining that I was never going to read Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s mammoth novel &#8220;War And Peace&#8221;, but that I was looking forward to watching the BBC television adaptation of the book. The adaptation was in the form of six one-hour episodes broadcast a week at a time, but this week [&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-19325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19325"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19330,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19325\/revisions\/19330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}