{"id":383,"date":"2010-07-20T12:34:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T18:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2010\/07\/20\/ramona-and-beezus-releases-july-23\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T16:24:28","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T22:24:28","slug":"ramona-and-beezus-releases-july-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/2010\/ramona-and-beezus-releases-july-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramona and Beezus Releases July 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/images\/Blog\/Ramona.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ramona and Beezus is a strong adaptation of the classic Beverly Cleary novels, that updates the already engaging characters and setting without weakening them. This cute family comedy deals well with today&#8217;s middle class crises, ranging from the real estate crash to corporate downsizing.\u00a0 We get inside Ramona Quimby&#8217;s head almost immediately with fanciful special effects that bring her imagination right out onto the screen. Most of all it, it is a lovely portrait of two sisters overcoming their differences and coming together &#8211; demonstrating along the way that sisterhood isn&#8217;t just powerful &#8211; it&#8217;s also fun.\u00a0 Ramona Quimby rides again in this sparkly funny family comedy!<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed by Doug Zwick, KIDS FIRST! Board member; Discussion guides are available through Walden Media <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walden.com\/site\/guide\/ramona_and_beezus\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Ramona and Beezus is a strong adaptation of the classic Beverly Cleary novels, that updates the already engaging characters and setting without weakening them. This cute family comedy deals well with today&#8217;s middle class crises, ranging from the real estate crash to corporate downsizing.\u00a0 We get inside Ramona Quimby&#8217;s head almost immediately with fanciful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature-film-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSd8M-6b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/ranny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}