{"id":2061,"date":"2018-10-08T09:35:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2018-10-08T09:35:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T13:35:01","slug":"random-movie-monday-girl-with-a-pearl-earring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/10\/08\/random-movie-monday-girl-with-a-pearl-earring\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Movie Monday- Girl With a Pearl Earring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s Random Movie Monday again! This week, we\u2019re featuring a movie that was based on a book that was based\u00a0painting. A\u00a0famous (and mysterious) 17<sup>th<\/sup> century Dutch painting called <em>Girl With a Pearl Earring.\u00a0<\/em>Here\u2019s our summary:<\/p>\n<p><em>17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes\u00a0<\/em><em>a\u00a0maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter&#8217;s attention. He is commissioned to paint Griet, and the result is one of the greatest paintings ever created<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I use a random number generator to select our random movies, but I was definitely pleased when DVD 10460 came out. I&#8217;ve never actually seen\u00a0<em>Girl With a Pearl Earring<\/em> (the movie), but\u00a0<em>Girl With a Pearl Earring\u00a0<\/em>(the painting) is my favorite work of art. I&#8217;ve seen it in person twice, once in New York, and once in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>This movie stars Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, and a crop of British, Irish, and Australian actors who pop up in everything.\u00a0 Check out the trailer, and then check it out from Media Services!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) Official Trailer - Scarlett Johansson Movie\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8awflTA4QYE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Random Movie Monday again! This week, we\u2019re featuring a movie that was based on a book that was based\u00a0painting. A\u00a0famous (and mysterious) 17th century Dutch painting called Girl With a Pearl Earring.\u00a0Here\u2019s our summary: 17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes\u00a0a\u00a0maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-at-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}