{"id":64852,"date":"2013-02-20T08:01:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T13:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=64852"},"modified":"2019-07-07T12:08:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T16:08:48","slug":"an-act-of-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=64852","title":{"rendered":"An Act of Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/536927_10151332710532632_78626533_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/536927_10151332710532632_78626533_n.jpg\" alt=\"536927_10151332710532632_78626533_n\" width=\"796\" height=\"473\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/536927_10151332710532632_78626533_n.jpg 796w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/536927_10151332710532632_78626533_n-100x59.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/536927_10151332710532632_78626533_n-200x118.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/536927_10151332710532632_78626533_n-400x237.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nIn watching the film again, I was struck by the fact that both characters have deep connections with elderly people, he with the man he moves in the nursing home, she with her grandmother.  There is no fear of the elderly, just compassion and also a respect for experience and a long life lived.  It is one of the subtle elements of the script that really helps make the film.<\/p>\n<p>My review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalnewyork.com\/article\/culture\/2010\/12\/1041584\/blue-valentine-stunning-and-about-sexy-dead-romance\"><i>Blue Valentine<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In watching the film again, I was struck by the fact that both characters have deep connections with elderly people, he with the man he moves in the nursing home, she with her grandmother. There is no fear of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=64852\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2566],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148512,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64852\/revisions\/148512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}