{"id":270,"date":"2006-12-24T23:15:53","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T22:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=270"},"modified":"2006-12-24T23:15:53","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T22:15:53","slug":"the-100-most-inspiring-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"The 100 most inspiring films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our son Richard and his fiancee Emily joined us today to celebrate Christmas and we spent much of the evening watching a special programme on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afi.com\/tvevents\/100years\/cheers.aspx\">100 most inspiring films<\/a> as selected by the members of the American Film Institute.<br \/>\nSince I&#8217;m a massive movie fan, I&#8217;ve seen many of these films &#8211; but certainly not all. I was pleased to see my all-time favourite film &#8220;Lawrence Of Arabia&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/clfilms.html#Lawrence\">here<\/a>] in the list, but surprised that &#8220;Gladiator&#8221;  [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/clfilms.html#Gladiator\">here<\/a>] was not there.<br \/>\nNo 1 on the list was the wonderful &#8220;It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/clfilms.html#Wonderful\">here<\/a>]. What was striking was how many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001627\/\">movies starring Sydney Poitier<\/a> came up in the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our son Richard and his fiancee Emily joined us today to celebrate Christmas and we spent much of the evening watching a special programme on the 100 most inspiring films as selected by the members of the American Film Institute. Since I&#8217;m a massive movie fan, I&#8217;ve seen many of these films &#8211; but certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","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\/270","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=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}