{"id":20,"date":"2018-04-23T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bender-lib.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/04\/23\/movies-at-random-the-magic-christian\/"},"modified":"2018-04-23T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T20:10:00","slug":"movies-at-random-the-magic-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/04\/23\/movies-at-random-the-magic-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies At Random: The Magic Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tToday&#8217;s random DVD is <i>The Magic Christian<\/i> (<a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.wrlc.org\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=8304769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HU&nbsp;DVD 7940<\/a>) starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr. This black comedy is completely littered with celebrity cameos (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Magic_Christian_(film)#Cast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see Wikipedia<\/a>), and looks fully ridiculous. But supposedly it&#8217;s terribly madcap! So I suppose that&#8217;s fine. Also, I mean, Peter Sellers in anything, really. How can you resist?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s our summary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, happens upon a young orphan in the park and, on a whim, decides to adopt him. Together they set off on a series of madcap escapades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the original trailer:<\/p>\n<p>Happy viewing!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s random DVD is The Magic Christian (HU&nbsp;DVD 7940) starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr. This black comedy is completely littered with celebrity cameos (see Wikipedia), and looks fully ridiculous. But supposedly it&#8217;s terribly madcap! So I suppose that&#8217;s fine. Also, I mean, Peter Sellers in anything, really. How can you resist? Here&#8217;s our summary: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-use","category-movies-at-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}