{"id":7856,"date":"2012-02-11T20:32:55","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T01:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7856"},"modified":"2012-02-11T21:05:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T02:05:02","slug":"revisiting-lost-in-austen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7856","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Lost in Austen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bit over two years ago I wrote within these pages about <a href=http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=2791 target=1>my first time watching Lost in Austen<\/a>, Guy Andrews&#8217; brilliant and pitch-perfect reboot of &#8220;Pride and Prejudice&#8221;.   I am finding it to be even more gratifying upon second viewing, familiar as I now am with the fortuitous twists and turns of the plot.<\/p>\n<p>I also find myself, for the moment, disposed to rejoice in the pleasurable cadences of Andrews&#8217; recreation of Austen&#8217;s language, and the many and varied locutions by which the characters express themselves.  It is indeed refreshing to visit, if only for the briefest of intervals, a period in the history of our fair English when even the most subtle indications of one&#8217;s inner thoughts were able to find expression in one&#8217;s words.<\/p>\n<p>On the morrow, alas, I shall undoubtedly revert to our ruinous modern habit of abbreviated communication, of language stripped bare, of grievously monosyllabic utterances endlessly compromised by a sad reliance upon base clich\u00e9.   Please forgive me, gentle readers, for allowing myself the pleasure, on this occasion, of indulging a rare and joyful celebration of our dear mother tongue, clothed in all her finery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bit over two years ago I wrote within these pages about my first time watching Lost in Austen, Guy Andrews&#8217; brilliant and pitch-perfect reboot of &#8220;Pride and Prejudice&#8221;. I am finding it to be even more gratifying upon second viewing, familiar as I now am with the fortuitous twists and turns of the plot. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7856\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Revisiting Lost in Austen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7859,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856\/revisions\/7859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}