{"id":81,"date":"2008-02-02T21:20:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T02:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/02\/02\/juno-at-the-little\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T10:56:52","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T15:56:52","slug":"juno-at-the-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/02\/02\/juno-at-the-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Juno at the Little"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ali and I went to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelittle.org\">The Little<\/a><\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=240+East+Ave,+Rochester,+NY&amp;ll=43.15595,-77.59828&amp;spn=.005,.01&amp;hl=en\">240 East Ave.<\/a>) to see <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0467406\/\">Juno<\/a><\/strong>.  We got there a bit early and ended up having some good (but a bit pricey) panini sandwiches at the cafe.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the movie was really cute.  It's about a smart, quick-witted girl who unexpectedly gets pregnant.  She decides to put the kid up for adoption and finds the seemingly perfect couple &mdash; at least on the surface and through her myopic teenage eyes.  It was really just a nice, light story that takes what would ordinarily be a heavy topic, and puts a bit of flair on it to make it quite palatable.<\/p>\n<p>One of the complaints I had heard was that the title character Juno was too smart &mdash; too worldly for her age.  Indeed she was awfully smart, but come on: have you heard teenagers talk?  <em>(And I freely include my own teenage inanity.)<\/em>  I don't think people would tolerate 2 hours of that.  That said, they didn't do a bad job of giving Juno and her friends the pop-culture, repetitive patterns of teenage speech without making it irritating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali and I went to The Little (240 East Ave.) to see Juno. We got there a bit early and ended up having some good (but a bit pricey) panini sandwiches at the cafe. Anyway, the movie was really cute. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/02\/02\/juno-at-the-little\/\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[58,52,413,412,414],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-movies","tag-ali","tag-dinner","tag-juno","tag-little","tag-panini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}