{"id":9321,"date":"2010-11-16T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=9321"},"modified":"2010-11-12T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T17:40:09","slug":"seabiscuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/seabiscuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Seabiscuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If\u00a0you liked\u00a0the movie Secretariat<\/em> and have\u00a0 been following Zenyatta’s career as an undefeated filly (up till her last race),\u00a0 you may want to check out more horse movies and books.<\/p>\n

Seabiscuit<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>stars another\u00a0underdog, so-to-speak, who becomes an incredible crowd-pleaser.\u00a0 The movie is based on a book by Laura Hillenbrand.\u00a0This true, Depression-era story stars \u00a0Toby Maguire as the\u00a0teenage\u00a0jockey whose destitute parents left him\u00a0with a horse trainer. \u00a0Jeff Bridges is the owner whose son is killed in a car accident, and \u00a0Chris Cooper\u00a0as a\u00a0homeless, former cowboy. He\u00a0 discovers Seabiscuit and becomes his trainer.\u00a0 They all form a unique team, as Seabiscuit becomes a\u00a0celebrated winner, giving hope to a nation of down-and-outers.<\/p>\n

Like Secretariat,\u00a0 both horses are dismissed early on as losers, but\u00a0they loved\u00a0nothing so much as to come from behind and win races in a nail-biting, dramatic fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If\u00a0you liked\u00a0the movie Secretariat and have\u00a0 been following Zenyatta’s career as an undefeated filly (up till her last race),\u00a0 you may want to check out more horse movies and books. Seabiscuit stars another\u00a0underdog, so-to-speak, who becomes an incredible crowd-pleaser.\u00a0 The movie is based on a book by Laura Hillenbrand.\u00a0This true,[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],"tags":[307,582,583],"class_list":["post-9321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvds","tag-depression","tag-great-depression","tag-horse-racing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2ql","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321","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=9321"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9351,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions\/9351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}