{"id":460,"date":"2009-01-30T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/30\/new-in-the-small-town\/"},"modified":"2009-01-30T16:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T20:19:00","slug":"new-in-the-small-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/30\/new-in-the-small-town\/","title":{"rendered":"New in (the small) Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;m going to break one of my cardinal rules:  I&#8217;m going to slam something I&#8217;ve never seen.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Renee Zelleweger film, &#8220;New In Town,&#8221; is all about a big-city corporate shark gal learning a bit about life and finding romance in a small town. <\/p>\n<p>Sigh.  <\/p>\n<p>The New York Times doesn&#8217;t mind the city-mouse country-mouse schtick so much, they just want it done better.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNew In Town\u201d has no idea of how to play its cards. From their regional accents to their cutesy-poo vocabulary (lots of okey-dokeys), the Minnesotans whom Lucy encounters are ludicrous parodies of the characters in \u201cFargo.\u201d You feel as if you are watching creatures more exotic than Snow White\u2019s seven dwarfs. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And who&#8217;s the small-town hunk?  Harry Connick Jr., one of the most cosmopolitan guys I&#8217;ve ever seen on-screen.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a Green Acres remake in our future.    <\/p>\n<p>Oh, well.  There&#8217;s no escaping this stuff.  It&#8217;ll be with us until we all live in orbital space colonies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;m going to break one of my cardinal rules: I&#8217;m going to slam something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}