{"id":508,"date":"2007-06-21T22:51:46","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T02:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/06\/21\/once\/"},"modified":"2008-06-15T21:56:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T02:56:38","slug":"once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/06\/21\/once\/","title":{"rendered":"Once"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/3o5.gif\" alt=\"3 Stars\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0907657\/\">This<\/a> is a quirky little Irish musical that is getting a limited distribution in the U.S. I enjoyed it; the music is great, but I suspect it will have limited appeal for mainstream American audiences. <\/p>\n<p>A street musician (by day he&#8217;s a vacuum cleaner repairman) meets an unemployed pianist. They decide to try collaborating, assemble a makeshift band and sort of fall in love. The songs are worked in as a natural part of the story&#8211;unlike most musicals there&#8217;s no need to suspend disbelief when the characters burst into song.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t expect a conventional happy ending. It isn&#8217;t tragic (parts of it are quite funny), but there&#8217;s a typical Irish melancholy tone to the story as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a quirky little Irish musical that is getting a limited distribution in the U.S. I enjoyed it; the music is great, but I suspect it will have limited&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/06\/21\/once\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-once"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}