{"id":12703,"date":"2011-12-21T11:31:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T16:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12703"},"modified":"2012-07-11T09:23:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T14:23:49","slug":"its-a-wonderful-life-is-a-movie-that-only-an-occupod-could-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/12\/21\/its-a-wonderful-life-is-a-movie-that-only-an-occupod-could-love\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;<em>It\u2019s A Wonderful Life<\/em> is a movie that only an Occupod could love&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/opinion\/op_ed\/view\/2011_1221shopworn_flick_tells_sorry_tale\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Graham<\/a> explains why the much-loved Christmas movie <em>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<\/em> is actually awful:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Consider George Bailey. In your mind, you see him after a lifetime of poverty, grief and bad luck, running through Bedford Falls shouting \u201cMerry Christmas you old Building and Loan,\u201d just happy to have a family he loves.<\/p>\n<p>Well I agree that having a loving family can help us all get through crises. (Remember the stewardess in the disaster-film spoof \u201cAirplane?\u201d \u201cAt least I had a husband\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>But the name of the film is \u201cWonderful Life,\u201d not, \u201cWell, Things Could Be Worse.\u201d And in George Bailey\u2019s case, things are truly tragic.<\/p>\n<p>Smart, ambitious George gets stuck at the modest Building and Loan back in Hickville when his brother marries into a cushy corporate gig and his father dies. After years of dreaming of going off to college, traveling the world and becoming a top engineer or architect, his life is spent scraping by, and helping others do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow the movie &mdash; like the Occupiers of today &mdash; tries to turn that into a virtue. Despite his wife and kids, George turns down $20,000 a year so he won\u2019t have to work for that \u201cevil banker,\u201d Mr. Potter.<\/p>\n<p>Occupy Bedford Falls!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Graham explains why the much-loved Christmas movie It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life is actually awful: Consider George Bailey. In your mind, you see him after a lifetime of poverty, grief and bad luck, running through Bedford Falls shouting \u201cMerry Christmas you old Building and Loan,\u201d just happy to have a family he loves. Well I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,57,28],"tags":[345,106,122,835],"class_list":["post-12703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-humour","category-media","tag-christmas","tag-greatdepression","tag-movies","tag-occupymovement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3iT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15958,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12703\/revisions\/15958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}