{"id":196,"date":"2009-09-05T17:45:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-06T00:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2010-03-20T17:19:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T22:19:12","slug":"julie-and-julia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/julie-and-julia\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie and Julia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time, I wrote a poem that made some allusions to Julia Child’s sex life. When I workshopped the poem at my writing group, I saw some eyebrows raise at the very notion. Upon seeing the Julie and Julia<\/a> film, I feel vindicated.\u00a0 Watching Meryl Streep<\/a> and Stanley Tucci<\/a> play Julia and Paul child made me think about acting and feel amazed that two people could simulate, for the screen, the intimacy that they achieved. At one point, I found myself transfixed by Tucci’s fingertips as he reached for Streep. Then, I remembered that I was supposed to be watching the movie.<\/p>\n

I had read Julie Powell’s book, Julie and Julia<\/a>, quite some time ago and was looking forward to seeing it onscreen. I was not disappointed. I had forgotten, having read the book a few years ago, that Powell was on the cusp of her thirtieth birthday when this whole thing was happening. Suprise, surprise, on the cusp of my own decade birthday, I found myself relating to that portion of the movie. Julie strove to turn herself into a cook, essentially. I have worked toward becoming someone who runs. Somehow this movie made me think of what I have accomplished running-wise and feel good about that. You won’t hear me complaining about a movie that makes me feel good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once upon a time, I wrote a poem that made some allusions to Julia Child’s sex life. When I workshopped the poem at my writing group, I saw some eyebrows raise at the very notion. Upon seeing the Julie and Julia film, I feel vindicated.\u00a0 Watching Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci play Julia and Paul… Continue reading Julie and Julia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[],"tags":[64,747,749],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-cooking","tag-food","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p33KTw-3a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":351,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/presidential-reading-aka-goal-26\/","url_meta":{"origin":196,"position":0},"title":"Presidential Reading aka Goal 26","author":"admin","date":"February 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"So, one of the birthday goals is to read a biography of each US President. 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