{"id":6136,"date":"2011-12-08T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6136"},"modified":"2017-04-22T20:24:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T19:24:06","slug":"all-time-top-10-films-no-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6136","title":{"rendered":"All-Time Top 10 Films (No 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The eighth film in this very personal list of my All-Time Top 10 Films is &#8216;<strong>It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life<\/strong>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mfBAm-TnPks\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although not a film with a great deal of musical content, &#8216;It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life&#8217; uses what little music it has to tremendous effect.<\/p>\n<p>The final scene (featured above) where the mob gathers inside George&#8217;s house and strikes up &#8216;Hark The Herald Angels&#8217; is an unashamed tear-jerker.<\/p>\n<p>Especially with the &#8216;Auld Lang Syne&#8217; closer at the end of the scene.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great film.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas wouldn&#8217;t be Christmas without a good cry, and this is the film to make that happen for you.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eighth film in this very personal list of my All-Time Top 10 Films is &#8216;It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life&#8216;. Although not a film with a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}