{"id":12653,"date":"2008-03-04T03:29:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T10:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/03\/04\/movie-review-juno.html"},"modified":"2008-03-04T03:29:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T10:29:01","slug":"movie_review_juno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/04\/movie_review_juno.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: <i>Juno<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Juno\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/juno.jpg\" width=\"193\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A shortish review, having watched <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0467406\/\" target=\"_blank\">Juno<\/a><\/em> on the flight to the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Fun. Witty, if a bit too self-consciously clever and quirky at times. 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