{"id":29873,"date":"2011-12-15T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/katherine_richards\/"},"modified":"2011-12-15T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T17:05:00","slug":"katherine_richards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29873","title":{"rendered":"(Christianity Today) Katherine Richards&#8211;Frank Capra&#39;s Miracle Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year when we start watching favorite Christmas movies, and for many, the list begins with Frank Capra&#8217;s It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life. When we think of Capra&#8217;s films, it&#8217;s easy to break into a smile, for he was &#8220;the great constructor of happy endings,&#8221; as biographer Vito Zaggiro has written.<\/p>\n<p>But Zaggiro doesn&#8217;t stop there. In the very same sentence\u201d\u201din his article titled &#8220;It&#8217;s (Not) A Wonderful Life: For a Counter-Reading of Frank Capra,&#8221; Zaggiro notes that the director&#8217;s films also often &#8220;represented enormous social contradictions and conflict that clash with the surface message of his films&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/movies\/commentaries\/2011\/miraclewoman.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year when we start watching favorite Christmas movies, and for many, the list begins with Frank Capra&#8217;s It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life. When we think of Capra&#8217;s films, it&#8217;s easy to break into a smile, for he<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29873\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,133,93,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-history","category-movies-television","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}