{"id":824,"date":"2003-04-19T03:36:59","date_gmt":"2003-04-19T03:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2020-08-20T03:37:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T03:37:30","slug":"bend-it-like-beckham-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2003\/04\/19\/bend-it-like-beckham-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Bend It Like Beckham (2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s Saturday, and we&#8217;re going to get out of the house for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We shopped at Target, and Ross, and bought many, many shirts to make up for my ripping tendancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After that we were going to find a bite to eat, but the nearby Cheesecake Factory was totally packed and very pretentious looking, so we gave it a miss and went straight to the Village Square 8 cinemas for a showing of &#8220;Bend It Like Beckham&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SEE THIS MOVIE!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s cute. And fun. And although it will inevitably be compared to the Fat, Greek Wedding, it is different. Yes, there&#8217;s a clash of cultures, but that&#8217;s not all, and the characters have no embarrassment about who they are and where they come from, and it&#8217;s just great. Not predictable, and even the closing scenes were perfect and unexpected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Saturday, and we&#8217;re going to get out of the house for a while. We shopped at Target, and Ross, and bought many, many shirts to make up for my ripping tendancy. After that we were going to find a bite to eat, but the nearby Cheesecake Factory was totally packed and very pretentious looking, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}