{"id":129130,"date":"2015-12-15T05:56:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T05:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/15\/movie-review-young-mr-lincoln-1939.html"},"modified":"2015-12-15T05:56:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T05:56:16","slug":"movie-review-young-mr-lincoln-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/15\/movie-review-young-mr-lincoln-1939.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &quot;Young Mr. Lincoln&quot; (1939)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Fonda does a decent Abe Lincoln, but the movie as a whole (directed by John Ford) is scattershot and melodramatic. 2.5\/5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/young-mr-lincoln\/\">http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/young-mr-lincoln\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6228385373424537233\/6228385374706248146'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-E6eECd7Zo38\/Vm-rf7eaqdI\/AAAAAAADes4\/-fw6H2Lzij8\/228697%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/jnYE7dgCFVY'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Fonda does a decent Abe Lincoln, but the movie as a whole (directed by John Ford) is scattershot and melodramatic. 2.5\/5 stars. http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/young-mr-lincoln\/ \u00a0 View on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/2286975B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33026,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/03\/movie-review-lincoln-2012.html","url_meta":{"origin":129130,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Lincoln&quot; (2012)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Apr-13 7:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"I saw this on my flight to the UK last week. 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