{"id":4950,"date":"2009-12-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=4950"},"modified":"2009-11-25T13:35:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T19:35:19","slug":"hello-bedford-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/hello-bedford-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Bedford Falls!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill’s choice for favorite holiday escape is a beloved classic. Since it is largely set during the austerity of the Great Depression and World War II, it reflects many of the same economic hardships we’re experiencing now – and shows that there’s always something to be grateful for.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life<\/em><\/a><\/strong> frequently appears on lists of the top 100 movies of all time (sometimes it ranks in the top 10) for a reason…it’s good.\u00a0 It’s a feelgood story from an innocent American age, when all that was needed was black and white celluloid and a good script.\u00a0 I suppose it doesn’t hurt to have the Tom Hanks of the World War II era on your payroll either.<\/p>\n

We can relate to George Bailey’s existential questioning.\u00a0 It has a happy ending for the holidays.\u00a0 Finally, its over-the-air broadcast is a free local television tradition that serves as a much-needed respite from the brutal Iowa winter, people jockeying for your last cent, and familial stresses.<\/p>\n

And in case you were wondering, young Zuzu is no longer six years old.\u00a0 She will be 70 next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill’s choice for favorite holiday escape is a beloved classic. Since it is largely set during the austerity of the Great Depression and World War II, it reflects many of the same economic hardships we’re experiencing now – and shows that there’s always something to be grateful for. The 1946[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[351,921,324,920,85],"class_list":["post-4950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvds","category-staff-picks","tag-christmas","tag-frank-capra","tag-holidays","tag-jimmy-stewart","tag-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1hQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4950"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5094,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4950\/revisions\/5094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}