{"id":14587,"date":"2012-01-09T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=14587"},"modified":"2011-12-30T13:04:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T19:04:12","slug":"crazy-stupid-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/crazy-stupid-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy, Stupid, Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/searchresults.aspx?ctx=16.1033.0.0.1&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=crazy,%20stupid,%20love%20videorecording&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;query=&amp;page=0\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14636\" title=\"crazystupidlove\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/crazystupidlove.jpg?resize=202%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/crazystupidlove.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/crazystupidlove.jpg?w=408&amp;ssl=1 408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>How often do you actually gasp with surprise anymore? Towards the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/searchresults.aspx?ctx=16.1033.0.0.1&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=crazy,%20stupid,%20love%20videorecording&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;limit=TOM=*&amp;query=&amp;page=0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Crazy, Stupid, Love<\/em><\/strong>,<\/a> the many plot strands of this movie come together and there is a &#8220;reveal&#8221; that is\u00a0truly\u00a0unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I applaud director Glenn Ficarra for adeptly weaving together so many relationships and wonderful performances, especially by\u00a0Emma Stone. She and Ryan Gosling have a\u00a0chemistry, rivaled only by that between Gosling and Steve Carell. When the last two have a falling-out, it&#8217;s almost more upsetting than the breakup of Carell and Julianne Moore. Gosling, as the epitomy of cool confidence, is a pleasure to watch. (There is a scene that will have you running to the library catalog to see if <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/searchresults.aspx?ctx=16.1033.0.0.1&amp;type=Keyword&amp;term=dirty%20dancing&amp;by=KW&amp;sort=RELEVANCE&amp;limit=TOM=dvd&amp;query=&amp;page=0\" target=\"_blank\">Dirty Dancing<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is on the shelf)<\/p>\n<p>Go now, and have the time of your life-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How often do you actually gasp with surprise anymore? Towards the end of Crazy, Stupid, Love, the many plot strands of this movie come together and there is a &#8220;reveal&#8221; that is\u00a0truly\u00a0unexpected. \u00a0I applaud director Glenn Ficarra for adeptly weaving together so many relationships and wonderful performances, especially by\u00a0Emma Stone.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/crazy-stupid-love\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[524,155,755],"class_list":["post-14587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvds","category-staff-picks","tag-comedy","tag-family","tag-love-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-3Nh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14587"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14641,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14587\/revisions\/14641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}