{"id":8601,"date":"2016-11-02T20:22:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T00:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8601"},"modified":"2016-11-02T20:22:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T00:22:02","slug":"uncle-lars-flits-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8601","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Lars Flits Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tomorrow I\u2019ll be delivering a sermon <\/strong>in campus chapel at our schools. If you think of it, you might pray that I do more good than harm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here\u2019s something rather nice: <\/strong>An old TV production of my favorite short story, P.G. Wodehouse\u2019s \u201cUncle Fred Flits By.\u201d It\u2019s a little slow for my taste, and they make some odd changes to the text for no apparent reason, but all in all it\u2019s not bad. David Niven is excellent as the inimitable Uncle Fred. (Now that I think of it, that\u2019s a self-contradictory statement. If he\u2019s inimitable, it\u2019s impossible for anyone to portray him excellently.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fDYZcyAFDmI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow I\u2019ll be delivering a sermon in campus chapel at our schools. If you think of it, you might pray that I do more good than harm. Here\u2019s something rather nice: An old TV production of my favorite short story, P.G. Wodehouse\u2019s \u201cUncle Fred Flits By.\u201d It\u2019s a little slow for my taste, and they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8601\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uncle Lars Flits Through<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[2125,3226],"class_list":["post-8601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-p-g-wodehouse","tag-uncle-fred-flits-by"],"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\/8601","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}