{"id":1620,"date":"2012-09-27T17:35:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T21:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2012-09-30T00:20:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T04:20:08","slug":"the-french-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/?p=1620","title":{"rendered":"The French Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffd500;\">\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001243\/\">William Friedkin<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Year:<\/strong> 1971<\/p>\n<p>I had never seen this classic. Only afterwards did I realize just how many awards this film won. As always, it&#8217;s a treat to see NYC in films. There&#8217;s even a great scene where the World Trade Center is under construction in the background (which feels eerily the same as it does now when I look over at Manhattan). There&#8217;s an absolutely terrific car chase scene 3\/4 into the film that makes you appreciate when NYC didn&#8217;t have so many cars. Plus, I was a little surprised at how clean the subways were; I suppose the graffiti didn&#8217;t start til later in the 70s.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0067116\/\" target=\"_blank\">More Info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 Director: William Friedkin Year: 1971 I had never seen this classic. Only afterwards did I realize just how many awards this film won. As always, it&#8217;s a treat to see NYC in films. There&#8217;s even a great scene where the World Trade Center is under construction in the background (which feels eerily the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,18,17],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1627,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}