{"id":3531,"date":"2017-09-23T22:19:55","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T22:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/77.104.180.154\/~andrewdo\/blog\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2017-09-23T22:19:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T22:19:55","slug":"to-sir-with-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2017\/09\/23\/to-sir-with-love\/","title":{"rendered":"To Sir, With Love"},"content":{"rendered":"
Just watched \u2018To Sir, With Love\u2019 (1967). Amazing to see it though modern eyes \u2014 I spent half the film thinking about how many safeguarding issues it was accumulating as we went along. A chunk of casual racism that I am sure fit with the times but is astonishing now, gigantic milking of the title song throughout and an obvious plot that didn\u2019t go very far. But strangely compelling. Having The Mindbenders play the finale was fun. 6\/10.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just watched \u2018To Sir, With Love\u2019 (1967). Amazing to see it though modern eyes \u2014 I spent half the film thinking about how many safeguarding issues it was accumulating as we went along. A chunk of casual racism that I am sure fit with the times but is astonishing now, gigantic milking of the title […]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-film","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4819,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2018\/10\/11\/4819\/","url_meta":{"origin":3531,"position":0},"title":"Listening to Nick Robinson\u2019s interview\u2026","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"11 October 2018","format":"status","excerpt":"Listening to Nick Robinson\u2019s interview with Sir John Major and wondering whether people visibly going to jail over the 2007\u201308 financial crisis would have helped reduce the probability of the rise of nationalism and Brexit.","rel":"","context":"In "Snippets"","block_context":{"text":"Snippets","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/category\/snippets\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7119,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2021\/03\/30\/7119\/","url_meta":{"origin":3531,"position":1},"title":"Currently in a webinar with\u2026","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"30 March 2021","format":"status","excerpt":"Currently in a webinar with Sir Tim Berners-Lee. 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