{"id":5750,"date":"2014-05-16T22:29:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T02:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5750"},"modified":"2025-01-09T16:51:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T21:51:48","slug":"rethinking-the-phantom-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5750","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking &#8220;The Phantom Menace&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeffrey Overstreet notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/2014\/05\/star-wars-episode-one-the-phantom-menace-1999\/\"><i>The Phantom Menace<\/i> is 15 years old now<\/a>, and it hasn&#8217;t aged well. &#8220;I look back on my original review of this film with some chagrin,&#8221; he says. &#8220;The big screen was starved for inspiration, and there was just enough in <i>The Phantom Menace<\/i> to make me grateful for its arrival.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But he wasn&#8217;t so grateful he would give it passes on bad dialogue and annoying characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Overstreet notes that The Phantom Menace is 15 years old now, and it hasn&#8217;t aged well. &#8220;I look back on my original review of this film with some chagrin,&#8221; he says. &#8220;The big screen was starved for inspiration, and there was just enough in The Phantom Menace to make me grateful for its arrival.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5750\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rethinking &#8220;The Phantom Menace&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/5750","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=5750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20370,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5750\/revisions\/20370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}