{"id":7723,"date":"2012-06-25T23:03:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T03:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7723"},"modified":"2012-06-22T02:01:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T06:01:55","slug":"what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting-2012-kirk-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7723","title":{"rendered":"What To Expect When You&#8217;re Expecting (2012, Kirk Jones)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A happy movie full of good smiling people, including J-Lo, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3792\">Up in the Air<\/a><\/em>&#8216;s Anna Kendrick and <em>The State<\/em>&#8216;s Thomas Lennon.  Based on a self-help book, which AV Club points out makes it a similar adaptation to <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/154\">Fast Food Nation<\/a><\/em>, building stories from a non-fiction book to convey its general idea.  Mostly I looked past the actors and focused on the Atlanta locations (lots of Piedmont Park, the Woodruff Arts center, someplace on\/near Highland, and a whole scene at Smith&#8217;s Olde Bar).  Katy says it makes adoption seem preferable.<\/p>\n<p>At least it was written by women, even if it was directed, produced, shot, edited, scored and designed by men &#8211; bland men, if you ask me.  One of the writers did <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3335\">Whip It<\/a><\/em>, the other the Jamie Lee Curtis <em>Freaky Friday<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A happy movie full of good smiling people, including J-Lo, Up in the Air&#8216;s Anna Kendrick and The State&#8216;s Thomas Lennon. Based on a self-help book, which AV Club points out makes it a similar adaptation to Fast Food Nation, building stories from a non-fiction book to convey its general idea. Mostly I looked past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049],"class_list":["post-7723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7775,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions\/7775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}