{"id":130,"date":"2008-01-08T00:03:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T04:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=130"},"modified":"2008-01-08T00:03:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T04:03:42","slug":"attention-janeites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/08\/attention-janeites\/","title":{"rendered":"Attention Janeites&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting this weekend, PBS&#8217; <s>Monsterpiece<\/s> Masterpiece Theatre will be showing adaptations of all six of Jane Austen&#8217;s novels, including the definitive five-hour <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPride-Prejudice-Special-E-1996%2Fdp%2FB00005MP58&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Pride and Prejudice<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=meadowpartyco-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i> adaptation starring Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy. First up is a new take on <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPersuasion-Tor-Classics-Jane-Austen%2Fdp%2F0812565886&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Persuasion<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=meadowpartyco-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>, the most overlooked of her novels, but one without a good film version; the most recent attempt prior to this one starred Amanda Root as Anne Elliott, who spent the entire film sporting a look of wide-eyed terror as if she was in permanent danger of having someone shove a twelve-inch carrot up her ass. Since the novel&#8217;s Anne Elliott is generally smart and independent, Ms. Root&#8217;s take didn&#8217;t quite work for me. The book is probably Austen&#8217;s wittiest, with some great characters and plenty of dry humor; the opening scene where Anne&#8217;s uncle decries the lack of attractive people about town is priceless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting this weekend, PBS&#8217; Monsterpiece Masterpiece Theatre will be showing adaptations of all six of Jane Austen&#8217;s novels, including the definitive five-hour Pride and Prejudice adaptation starring Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy. First up is a new take on Persuasion, the most overlooked of her novels, but one without a good film version; the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvds","category-literature","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}