{"id":683,"date":"2011-02-11T23:02:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T07:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=683"},"modified":"2011-02-12T08:21:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T16:21:22","slug":"follow-me-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/11\/follow-me-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow Me, Boys!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight’s movie was Follow Me, Boys!<\/a><\/strong> from Disney. Being a Disney movie of a certain age, it therefore stars Fred MacMurray<\/a> and, not so much, Kurt Russell<\/a>. I was amazed to see it also featured Lillian Gish<\/a>. She was only 22 when she appeared in Birth of a Nation<\/a><\/strong>, so it’s not like she was ancient in 1966, when this movie appeared, but, still … Lilian Gish!!<\/em><\/p>\n

The movie itself was like watching It’s a Wonderful Life<\/a><\/strong>, only not nearly so hard on the protagonist. Like Jimmy Stewart, he never got to do what he always wanted, but unlike him, he learned better all along the way instead of all at the end. And he had plenty of rewards at the end, too. The plot didn’t have an arc<\/a> so much as a train with lots of individual box cars, to the point when you began to wonder if there would ever be a caboose.<\/p>\n

My favorite line<\/a>: “Oh, the Troop Committee? They’ll gum everything up!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight’s movie was Follow Me, Boys! from Disney. Being a Disney movie of a certain age, it therefore stars Fred MacMurray and, not so much, Kurt Russell. I was amazed to see it also featured Lillian Gish. She was only 22 when she appeared in Birth of a Nation, so it’s not like she was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[272,269,270,271,77,273],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-boy-scouts","tag-disney","tag-fred-macmurray","tag-kurt-russell","tag-movies-2","tag-scouting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-b1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}