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It was called "courtship" back then: Romola Garai goes straight to Ioan Gruffudd's heart by appealing to his reason<\/p><\/div>\n
Grace Under Pressure<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n[xrr rating=4.5\/5]<\/span><\/em><\/p>\nAmazing Grace. <\/em><\/strong>Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell, Youssou N\u2019Dour, Ciar\u00e1n Hinds, Toby Jones, Jeremy Swift, Nicholas Farrell, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Bill Paterson, and Albert Finney. Original music by David Arnold. Cinematography by Remi Adefarasin, B.S.C. Edited by Rick Shaine, A.C.E. Written by Steven Knight. Directed by Michael Apted. (Samuel Goldwyn Films\/Bristol Bay Productions, 2006, Color, 111 minutes. MPAA Rating: PG).<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nEvery decade or so, a motion picture comes along comes that so perfectly captures its subject\u2019s heroic essence, that it becomes<\/em> its subject. Such is the case with British director Michael Apted\u2019s superb biopic on abolitionist William Wilberforce, portrayed passionately by Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nThough Wilberforce is largely unknown to Americans today, this is an excellent introduction to the great English parliamentarian, who devoted twenty years of his life to eradicating the slave trade in Great Britain. A devoutly religious, though thoroughly skeptical man, Wilberforce figured prominently during both the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening.<\/p>\n
As the movie opens, the viewer finds Wilberforce not at the beginning of his crusade to end the barbaric practice of slavery, but what seems its most hopeless point: Once one of the youngest members of the House of Commons, as the eighteen century draws to a close we find the once powerful orator gaunt and dejected, having nearly exhausted his fortune and health in service of his fight. We first see him riding in a carriage through the rain, as he happens upon a driver along the muddy road, whipping his fallen horse ceaselessly. Moved to the animal\u2019s defense by mercy (he was a founding member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), Wilberforce nonetheless makes the driver cease his brutal flogging by using logical persuasion, informing him that the horse would more likely regain its strength if left to recover in peace for an hour. This simple exchange\u2014achieving his ideals through practical means\u2014reveals the key to Wilberforce\u2019s forceful personality and unyielding integrity that would come to serve him so well throughout his career as a legislator.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s on his way to the resort town of Bath, where, he hopes, the famous mineral springs will heal his body, ravaged from bouts of colitis and suffering addiction to laudanum, an opiate prescribed by his doctors. When he arrives, however, his friends economist Henry Thornton (Nicholas Farrell) and his wife Marianne (Sylvestra Le Touzel) have a different sort of tonic in mind to cure what ails Wilberforce, as they slyly maneuver their friend into a \u201cchance\u201d meeting with a ravishingly beautiful young abolitionist and social reformer, Barbara Spooner (Romola Garrai). Resentful at his friends\u2019 manipulations, he at first rebuffs her. Yet, the Thorntons are relentless and soon set him up again, later bringing Barbara to dinner at Wilberforce\u2019s house.<\/p>\n
Upon second meeting, however, their chemistry is too powerful to deny. Barbara and Wilber\u2019s long conversation into the wee hours about his efforts in vain to stop the slave trade provides the vehicle for flashbacks, which comprise the majority of the story and dramatize Wilberforce\u2019s tireless efforts as a younger man.<\/p>\n
Elected to Parliament at twenty-one in 1780, Wilberforce barreled into the House of Commons full of piss and vinegar, taking on all comers with his confrontational debating style and razor-sharp wit. One dewy morning, however, an epiphany strikes him as he lolls about his lawn, transfixed in examining the intricacy of God\u2019s handiwork in a spider web.<\/p>\n
Caught up in his conversion experience, Wilberforce\u2019s interest in the affairs of state evaporates as he\u2019s about to devote himself to a life of religious contemplation. Yet, to those around Wilberforce\u2014especially his friend in Parliament William Pitt the Younger (Benedict Cumberbatch, in a pointed, astute performance), angling to become the youngest Prime Minister of Britain at twenty-four\u2014the divine spark firing within him would be better put to practical use. \u201cDo you intend to use your beautiful voice to praise the Lord, or to change the world?\u201d Pitt asks.<\/p>\n
Wilberforce isn\u2019t convinced until a group of Quaker abolitionists visit one evening, bringing along a liberated slave from the New World, Oloudaqh Equiano (Youssou N\u2019Dour)<\/strong>, whose memoirs about his horrific passage from Africa would soon spark public outrage against the peculiar institution. Seeing for the first time direct evidence of slavery\u2019s evils, the brand on Equiano\u2019s chest (\u201cto let you know you no longer belong to God, but to a man,\u201d the former slave explains) and iron shackles, Wilberforce gains new perspective when radical abolitionist Thomas Clarkson (Rufus Sewell) makes a rhetorical point. \u201cWe understand you\u2019re having problems choosing whether to do the work of God, or the work of a political activist,\u201d he says. Another guest (Georgie Glen) finishes the thought, \u201cwe humbly suggest that you can do both.\u201d<\/p>\nThrowing himself into his task with all his vigor, Wilberforce floors a bill to abolish the slave trade every year\u2014and every year the bill is defeated. Yet, he perseveres. In a nation where slavery is largely out of sight (thus, out of mind), Wilberforce constantly contrives ways to force it into the faces of \u201cpolite society.\u201d He launches petition drives; he sponsors meetings for Equiano to lecture at and push copies of his book; at one gathering of the well heeled aboard a tour boat, the captain weighs anchor alongside a slave ship. Noting only one-third of the original 600 passengers survived the journey from Africa to Jamaica, Wilberforce exclaims to the MPs and their wives, \u201cThat smell is the smell of death<\/em>. Slow, painful death….Breathe it deeply. Take those handkerchiefs away from your noses! There now, remember that<\/em> smell.\u201d<\/p>\nAs his confession to Barbara ends, Wilberforce speaks as though his efforts lay buried in the distant past. Yet, while he seems too taxed to go on, Barbara finds only inspiration in his struggle. As morning breaks, the two announce their engagement to their friends. I like this little touch, seemingly coming out of left field: Without a word spoken between them of love (not to mention sex), their romance is subtly implied. While the two passionately talk of their ideals, sexual tension silently builds between them. This is old-fashioned moviemaking at its best: If Barbara\u2019s fiery red tresses, flawless peaches and cream complexion and corseted, heaving cleavage weren\u2019t sufficient to bag the man, then I suspect nothing would have stirred him. Ironically, I found the courtship scenes more erotically charged than the crassly explicated graphic sex in most movies nowadays.<\/p>\n
Their marriage and Barbara\u2019s pregnancy is a simple and beautiful metaphor for Wilberforce\u2019s regeneration of health and will as he heads back to Parliament to fight the good fight once more. The movie\u2019s political intrigue story really hits its stride here as Wilberforce, Pitt, Clarkson and Whig MP Charles Fox (Michael Gambon, best known for his role as Headmaster in the Harry Potter<\/em> series) put their heads together to effect the end of the slave trade. This is the best I\u2019ve seen in this genre since Otto Preminger\u2019s political thriller Advise & Consent,<\/em> based on Allen Drury\u2019s novel.<\/p>\nThe ending nearly left me breathless, witnessing Wilberforce\u2019s ultimate triumph. The movie\u2019s release was timed to coincide with the 200th<\/sup> anniversary of the slave trade\u2019s abolition on February 23, 1807. Although Amazing Grace<\/em> is a costume drama (which usually has me yawning), production designer Charles Wood\u2019s painstakingly researched and designed sets give the movie an authentic feel, while Remi Adefarasin\u2019s factual cinematography downplays idiosyncratic camera angles in favor of letting the actors and the settings predominate. Writer Steven Knight and director Apted\u2019s deft balance of gravitas and levity gives the whole business a timeless feel befitting its hero\u2019s magnitude, but without clumsy signposting.<\/p>\nThe only drawback, I felt, was that veteran actor Albert Finney\u2014in a bravura performance\u2014seemed underused, considering his pivotal role as John Newton, the former captain of a slave ship who later repented, and penned the moving hymn for which the film is named. While the scenes depicting his influence on Wilberforce were succinct and heartrending, they also felt somewhat truncated.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, Amazing Grace<\/em> has been well received by faithful and secular, conservative and liberal, alike. Still, it has generated some criticism on the pages of the Wall Street Journal,<\/em> where guest columnist Charlotte Allen finds only a \u201ccover-up\u201d of Wilberforce\u2019s fundamentalist brand of nascent Methodist Christianity. This is another entry in the Opinion Journal\u2019<\/em>s <\/em>cloying series of \u201cdebunking\u201d reviews by people who might be subject-matter experts, but haven\u2019t the foggiest idea about what it takes to make an entertaining flick. I think she\u2019s missing the forest for the trees: The slave trade abolition was Wilberforce\u2019s apotheosis, which is exactly what Apted put up on the screen.<\/p>\nIn a recent interview, that\u2019s how producer Patricia Heaton (no stranger to religious conservatism she, an outspoken Pro-Life advocate) described Amazing Grace,<\/em> as an inspiring biography of \u201cthe Abraham Lincoln of England,\u201d and an antidote to our \u201cage of such cynicism and despair, particularly about politics and religion.\u201d<\/p>\nI agree: William Wilberforce is historically significant for his courageous actions<\/em> in stopping an inhuman evil. While religion played no small part in motivating those actions, I really doubt so many talented people would\u2019ve assembled such an unabashed labor of love as this movie had Wilberforce decided to spend his days contemplating God\u2019s grandeur, while ignoring his own potential for greatness.<\/p>\nRobert L. Jones is a photojournalist living and working in Minnesota. His work has appeared in\u00a0<\/span>Black & White Magazine<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Entrepreneur<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Hoy! New York<\/span><\/span>, the New York\u00a0<\/span>Post<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>RCA Victor\u00a0<\/span>(Japan)<\/span><\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Scene in San Antonio<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Spirit Magazine<\/span><\/span>\u00a0(Canada),\u00a0<\/span>Top Producer<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0 and the Trenton\u00a0<\/span>Times<\/span><\/span>. Mr. Jones is a past entertainment editor of\u00a0<\/span>The New Individualist<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Grace Under Pressure [xrr rating=4.5\/5] Amazing Grace. Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell, Youssou N\u2019Dour, Ciar\u00e1n Hinds, Toby Jones, Jeremy Swift, Nicholas Farrell, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Bill Paterson, and Albert Finney. Original music by David Arnold. Cinematography by Remi Adefarasin, B.S.C. Edited by Rick Shaine, A.C.E. Written by Steven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,47,35,37,3,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biopics","category-costume-dramas","category-dramas","category-independent-films","category-mreview","category-political-dramas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Amazing Grace. <\/em><\/strong>Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell, Youssou N\u2019Dour, Ciar\u00e1n Hinds, Toby Jones, Jeremy Swift, Nicholas Farrell, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Bill Paterson, and Albert Finney. Original music by David Arnold. Cinematography by Remi Adefarasin, B.S.C. Edited by Rick Shaine, A.C.E. Written by Steven Knight. Directed by Michael Apted. (Samuel Goldwyn Films\/Bristol Bay Productions, 2006, Color, 111 minutes. MPAA Rating: PG).<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Every decade or so, a motion picture comes along comes that so perfectly captures its subject\u2019s heroic essence, that it becomes<\/em> its subject. Such is the case with British director Michael Apted\u2019s superb biopic on abolitionist William Wilberforce, portrayed passionately by Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Though Wilberforce is largely unknown to Americans today, this is an excellent introduction to the great English parliamentarian, who devoted twenty years of his life to eradicating the slave trade in Great Britain. A devoutly religious, though thoroughly skeptical man, Wilberforce figured prominently during both the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening.<\/p>\n As the movie opens, the viewer finds Wilberforce not at the beginning of his crusade to end the barbaric practice of slavery, but what seems its most hopeless point: Once one of the youngest members of the House of Commons, as the eighteen century draws to a close we find the once powerful orator gaunt and dejected, having nearly exhausted his fortune and health in service of his fight. We first see him riding in a carriage through the rain, as he happens upon a driver along the muddy road, whipping his fallen horse ceaselessly. Moved to the animal\u2019s defense by mercy (he was a founding member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals), Wilberforce nonetheless makes the driver cease his brutal flogging by using logical persuasion, informing him that the horse would more likely regain its strength if left to recover in peace for an hour. This simple exchange\u2014achieving his ideals through practical means\u2014reveals the key to Wilberforce\u2019s forceful personality and unyielding integrity that would come to serve him so well throughout his career as a legislator.<\/p>\n He\u2019s on his way to the resort town of Bath, where, he hopes, the famous mineral springs will heal his body, ravaged from bouts of colitis and suffering addiction to laudanum, an opiate prescribed by his doctors. When he arrives, however, his friends economist Henry Thornton (Nicholas Farrell) and his wife Marianne (Sylvestra Le Touzel) have a different sort of tonic in mind to cure what ails Wilberforce, as they slyly maneuver their friend into a \u201cchance\u201d meeting with a ravishingly beautiful young abolitionist and social reformer, Barbara Spooner (Romola Garrai). Resentful at his friends\u2019 manipulations, he at first rebuffs her. Yet, the Thorntons are relentless and soon set him up again, later bringing Barbara to dinner at Wilberforce\u2019s house.<\/p>\n Upon second meeting, however, their chemistry is too powerful to deny. Barbara and Wilber\u2019s long conversation into the wee hours about his efforts in vain to stop the slave trade provides the vehicle for flashbacks, which comprise the majority of the story and dramatize Wilberforce\u2019s tireless efforts as a younger man.<\/p>\n Elected to Parliament at twenty-one in 1780, Wilberforce barreled into the House of Commons full of piss and vinegar, taking on all comers with his confrontational debating style and razor-sharp wit. One dewy morning, however, an epiphany strikes him as he lolls about his lawn, transfixed in examining the intricacy of God\u2019s handiwork in a spider web.<\/p>\n Caught up in his conversion experience, Wilberforce\u2019s interest in the affairs of state evaporates as he\u2019s about to devote himself to a life of religious contemplation. Yet, to those around Wilberforce\u2014especially his friend in Parliament William Pitt the Younger (Benedict Cumberbatch, in a pointed, astute performance), angling to become the youngest Prime Minister of Britain at twenty-four\u2014the divine spark firing within him would be better put to practical use. \u201cDo you intend to use your beautiful voice to praise the Lord, or to change the world?\u201d Pitt asks.<\/p>\n Wilberforce isn\u2019t convinced until a group of Quaker abolitionists visit one evening, bringing along a liberated slave from the New World, Oloudaqh Equiano (Youssou N\u2019Dour)<\/strong>, whose memoirs about his horrific passage from Africa would soon spark public outrage against the peculiar institution. Seeing for the first time direct evidence of slavery\u2019s evils, the brand on Equiano\u2019s chest (\u201cto let you know you no longer belong to God, but to a man,\u201d the former slave explains) and iron shackles, Wilberforce gains new perspective when radical abolitionist Thomas Clarkson (Rufus Sewell) makes a rhetorical point. \u201cWe understand you\u2019re having problems choosing whether to do the work of God, or the work of a political activist,\u201d he says. Another guest (Georgie Glen) finishes the thought, \u201cwe humbly suggest that you can do both.\u201d<\/p>\n Throwing himself into his task with all his vigor, Wilberforce floors a bill to abolish the slave trade every year\u2014and every year the bill is defeated. Yet, he perseveres. In a nation where slavery is largely out of sight (thus, out of mind), Wilberforce constantly contrives ways to force it into the faces of \u201cpolite society.\u201d He launches petition drives; he sponsors meetings for Equiano to lecture at and push copies of his book; at one gathering of the well heeled aboard a tour boat, the captain weighs anchor alongside a slave ship. Noting only one-third of the original 600 passengers survived the journey from Africa to Jamaica, Wilberforce exclaims to the MPs and their wives, \u201cThat smell is the smell of death<\/em>. Slow, painful death….Breathe it deeply. Take those handkerchiefs away from your noses! There now, remember that<\/em> smell.\u201d<\/p>\n As his confession to Barbara ends, Wilberforce speaks as though his efforts lay buried in the distant past. Yet, while he seems too taxed to go on, Barbara finds only inspiration in his struggle. As morning breaks, the two announce their engagement to their friends. I like this little touch, seemingly coming out of left field: Without a word spoken between them of love (not to mention sex), their romance is subtly implied. While the two passionately talk of their ideals, sexual tension silently builds between them. This is old-fashioned moviemaking at its best: If Barbara\u2019s fiery red tresses, flawless peaches and cream complexion and corseted, heaving cleavage weren\u2019t sufficient to bag the man, then I suspect nothing would have stirred him. Ironically, I found the courtship scenes more erotically charged than the crassly explicated graphic sex in most movies nowadays.<\/p>\n Their marriage and Barbara\u2019s pregnancy is a simple and beautiful metaphor for Wilberforce\u2019s regeneration of health and will as he heads back to Parliament to fight the good fight once more. The movie\u2019s political intrigue story really hits its stride here as Wilberforce, Pitt, Clarkson and Whig MP Charles Fox (Michael Gambon, best known for his role as Headmaster in the Harry Potter<\/em> series) put their heads together to effect the end of the slave trade. This is the best I\u2019ve seen in this genre since Otto Preminger\u2019s political thriller Advise & Consent,<\/em> based on Allen Drury\u2019s novel.<\/p>\n The ending nearly left me breathless, witnessing Wilberforce\u2019s ultimate triumph. The movie\u2019s release was timed to coincide with the 200th<\/sup> anniversary of the slave trade\u2019s abolition on February 23, 1807. Although Amazing Grace<\/em> is a costume drama (which usually has me yawning), production designer Charles Wood\u2019s painstakingly researched and designed sets give the movie an authentic feel, while Remi Adefarasin\u2019s factual cinematography downplays idiosyncratic camera angles in favor of letting the actors and the settings predominate. Writer Steven Knight and director Apted\u2019s deft balance of gravitas and levity gives the whole business a timeless feel befitting its hero\u2019s magnitude, but without clumsy signposting.<\/p>\n The only drawback, I felt, was that veteran actor Albert Finney\u2014in a bravura performance\u2014seemed underused, considering his pivotal role as John Newton, the former captain of a slave ship who later repented, and penned the moving hymn for which the film is named. While the scenes depicting his influence on Wilberforce were succinct and heartrending, they also felt somewhat truncated.<\/p>\n Nonetheless, Amazing Grace<\/em> has been well received by faithful and secular, conservative and liberal, alike. Still, it has generated some criticism on the pages of the Wall Street Journal,<\/em> where guest columnist Charlotte Allen finds only a \u201ccover-up\u201d of Wilberforce\u2019s fundamentalist brand of nascent Methodist Christianity. This is another entry in the Opinion Journal\u2019<\/em>s <\/em>cloying series of \u201cdebunking\u201d reviews by people who might be subject-matter experts, but haven\u2019t the foggiest idea about what it takes to make an entertaining flick. I think she\u2019s missing the forest for the trees: The slave trade abolition was Wilberforce\u2019s apotheosis, which is exactly what Apted put up on the screen.<\/p>\n In a recent interview, that\u2019s how producer Patricia Heaton (no stranger to religious conservatism she, an outspoken Pro-Life advocate) described Amazing Grace,<\/em> as an inspiring biography of \u201cthe Abraham Lincoln of England,\u201d and an antidote to our \u201cage of such cynicism and despair, particularly about politics and religion.\u201d<\/p>\n I agree: William Wilberforce is historically significant for his courageous actions<\/em> in stopping an inhuman evil. While religion played no small part in motivating those actions, I really doubt so many talented people would\u2019ve assembled such an unabashed labor of love as this movie had Wilberforce decided to spend his days contemplating God\u2019s grandeur, while ignoring his own potential for greatness.<\/p>\n Robert L. Jones is a photojournalist living and working in Minnesota. His work has appeared in\u00a0<\/span>Black & White Magazine<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Entrepreneur<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Hoy! New York<\/span><\/span>, the New York\u00a0<\/span>Post<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>RCA Victor\u00a0<\/span>(Japan)<\/span><\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Scene in San Antonio<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Spirit Magazine<\/span><\/span>\u00a0(Canada),\u00a0<\/span>Top Producer<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0 and the Trenton\u00a0<\/span>Times<\/span><\/span>. Mr. Jones is a past entertainment editor of\u00a0<\/span>The New Individualist<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Grace Under Pressure [xrr rating=4.5\/5] Amazing Grace. Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Gambon, Rufus Sewell, Youssou N\u2019Dour, Ciar\u00e1n Hinds, Toby Jones, Jeremy Swift, Nicholas Farrell, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Bill Paterson, and Albert Finney. Original music by David Arnold. Cinematography by Remi Adefarasin, B.S.C. Edited by Rick Shaine, A.C.E. Written by Steven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,47,35,37,3,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biopics","category-costume-dramas","category-dramas","category-independent-films","category-mreview","category-political-dramas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonesing4movies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}