{"id":6144,"date":"2011-12-09T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6144"},"modified":"2017-04-22T20:23:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T19:23:11","slug":"all-time-top-10-films-no-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6144","title":{"rendered":"All-Time Top 10 Films (No 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seventh film in this very personal list of my All-Time Top 10 Films is &#8216;<strong>Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off<\/strong>&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tgd46QiHz4I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I love this film. Well yes, obv, otherwise it wouldn&#8217;t be number seven on this list, would it?<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>But Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off breathes innocent escapism through almost every frame.<\/p>\n<p>Except for the final scene, where the unfortunate thing happens with the car.<\/p>\n<p>This film is not about young people exploiting the rules and structures of a more senior world.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about freedom and expression and moving beyond the confines of a staid and uncreative domain.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s also about showing the grown-ups how things used to be.<\/p>\n<p>You know, back in their day.<\/p>\n<p>Before they got sucked in to a world of defined by rules lacking all creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, I nearly forgot.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also about three kids bunking off from school for the day, and having a riotous time.<\/p>\n<p>What, you&#8217;ve never bunked off school?<\/p>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seventh film in this very personal list of my All-Time Top 10 Films is &#8216;Ferris Bueller&#8217;s Day Off&#8221;. I love this film. Well yes,<\/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-6144","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\/6144","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=6144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}