{"id":1864,"date":"2024-11-27T21:06:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T05:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2024-11-27T21:06:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T05:06:27","slug":"retro-movie-adventures-to-be-or-not-to-be-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/27\/retro-movie-adventures-to-be-or-not-to-be-1942\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Movie Adventures: To Be or Not to Be (1942)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/to_be_or_not_to_be.jpg\" alt=\"Carole Lombard and Jack Benny in To Be or Not to Be. \" class=\"wp-image-1865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/to_be_or_not_to_be.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/to_be_or_not_to_be-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/to_be_or_not_to_be-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I decided I needed something light and pleasant to clear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/27\/movie-pass-adventures-gladiator-ii\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1860\">Gladiator II<\/a> out of my brain, so I do a quick search through the classic movies I&#8217;d never seen and landed on a movie about Nazis invading Poland. Fun! What a wild mix of screwball comedy and WWII spy adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I only knew Jack Benny from bits on television, where he usually overplayed his cheapskate shtick and shamelessly mugged at the camera, so it was a bit of a shock to see him actually acting, and being good at it . Lots of comedy, but lots of serious bits as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also: is it too late to have a little crush on Carole Lombard? Asking for a friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided I needed something light and pleasant to clear Gladiator II out of my brain, so I do a quick search through the classic movies I&#8217;d never seen and landed on a movie about Nazis invading Poland. Fun! What a wild mix of screwball comedy and WWII spy adventure. I only knew Jack Benny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1867,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/1867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}