{"id":19633,"date":"2024-05-22T19:53:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T23:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19633"},"modified":"2024-05-22T19:53:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T23:53:12","slug":"praise-for-wildcat-a-biopic-on-flannery-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19633","title":{"rendered":"Praise for Wildcat, a Biopic on Flannery O&#8217;Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wildcat Trailer #1 (2024)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R2WxoPxP_lQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author and professor Karen Swallow Prior reviews a new biopic film by Ethan Hawke about <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkchristian.net\/wildcat-and-why-flannery-oconnor-still-matters\">one of our favorite Southern authors, Flannery O&#8217;Connor.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;One of the film\u2019s greatest feats is packing so many of O\u2019Connor\u2019s life experiences and thoughts\u2014as expressed not only in her stories but also in her\u00a0<em>Prayer Journal<\/em>, letters, essays, and lectures\u2014into a dense, intricately woven film that runs under two hours. Hawke\u2019s restraint reflects perfectly the restraint of the life O\u2019Connor lived &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author and professor Karen Swallow Prior reviews a new biopic film by Ethan Hawke about one of our favorite Southern authors, Flannery O&#8217;Connor. &#8220;One of the film\u2019s greatest feats is packing so many of O\u2019Connor\u2019s life experiences and thoughts\u2014as expressed not only in her stories but also in her\u00a0Prayer Journal, letters, essays, and lectures\u2014into a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19633\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Praise for Wildcat, a Biopic on Flannery O&#8217;Connor<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[980,5204],"class_list":["post-19633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-nonfiction","tag-flannery-oconnor","tag-wildcat"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19634,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19633\/revisions\/19634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}