{"id":407,"date":"2010-06-12T16:15:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T16:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.wordpress.com\/?p=315"},"modified":"2010-06-12T16:15:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T16:15:51","slug":"daniel-woodrells-winters-bone-film-out-and-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/12\/daniel-woodrells-winters-bone-film-out-and-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Woodrell's "Winter's Bone" Film Out and About"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve blogged before about Daniel Woodrell’s novel Winter’s Bone<\/em> (2006): There’s a review today in the NY Times of the film version, which sounds good, gets glowing praise: http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/11\/movies\/11winter.html?hpw.\u00a0And being an indie film, this review is just the kind of attention it needs. The novel is haunting, brutal, and eye-opening: Some Americans tend to think of the whole country as a vast, cellphone-obsessed shopping mall. This is a mainly a TV media creation. Go to the corners and you’ll see something more interesting. Take where I live in Custer County, Colorado: the other day coming home from town we watched an elk chasing a coyote through the meadows, probably trying to scare it away from its calf. My small town is quite different than the hillbilly world of Winter’s Bone<\/em>, much more charm and less depression. This week I spent several hours at the local park with my baby girl, watching a crowd of kids laughing and running, with a skyline of 14,000 foot Rockie mountains as a backdrop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve blogged before about Daniel Woodrell’s novel Winter’s Bone (2006): There’s a review today in the NY Times of the film version, which sounds good, gets glowing praise: http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/11\/movies\/11winter.html?hpw.\u00a0And being an indie film, this review is just the kind of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksfilm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}