{"id":3353,"date":"2013-04-25T08:16:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T16:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2021-08-18T18:45:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T02:45:45","slug":"3353","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=3353","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/oof.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/oof.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"oof\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/oof.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/oof-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/oof-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>OUT OF AFRICA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>100 years ago Karen Blixen asked her lover\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brother to marry her and travel from Denmark to Kenya to start a farm. Seventy years later Sydney Pollack made a film about the story starring Robert Redford (who played Denys George Finch Hatton) and Merryl Streep (who played Baroness Karen Blixen). <\/p>\n<p>Critic Roger Ebert described the resulting 1985 Acadamy award-winning film this way, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<em>Out of Africa<\/em> is a great movie to look at, breathtakingly filmed on location. It is a movie with the courage to be about complex, sweeping emotions, and to use the star power of its actors without apology.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I agree. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget the soundtrack by John Barry. Kevin Gray cut this magnificent music to 180 gram vinyl a few years back for MCA. Worth tracking down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OUT OF AFRICA 100 years ago Karen Blixen asked her lover\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brother to marry her and travel from Denmark to Kenya to start a farm. Seventy years later Sydney Pollack made a film about the story starring Robert Redford (who played Denys George Finch Hatton) and Merryl Streep (who played Baroness Karen Blixen). Critic Roger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=3353\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,5,8,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23963,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions\/23963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}