{"id":10135,"date":"2009-05-14T12:47:58","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T18:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragtagfilm.com\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2009-05-14T12:47:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T18:47:58","slug":"miracle-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/miracle-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"Miracle Worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Miracle_of_Morgans_Creek\" src=\"http:\/\/img2.timeinc.net\/ew\/dynamic\/imgs\/070316\/creek_l.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you've been sitting out Ragtag's essential series of Preston Sturges films and are considering one film, make it <em>The Miracle of Morgan's Creek<\/em>, the funniest, craziest, and most subversive stroke of brilliance by Sturges and his family of actors. Noted for undermining the arbitrary, laughable Production Code standards set by Hollywood's self-censoring organization, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hays_office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hays Office<\/a> (1930-1968), it inspired <em>Nation <\/em>critic James Agee to famously proclaim that the Office had been \"raped in its sleep.\"<\/p>\n<p><em>The Miracle of Morgan's Creek<\/em> shows on <strong>Thursday, May 14 at 7:00 PM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/x4Rkj3u2UVk&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/x4Rkj3u2UVk&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you've been sitting out Ragtag's essential series of Preston Sturges films and are considering one film, make it The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, the funniest, craziest, and most subversive stroke of brilliance by Sturges and his family of actors. Noted for undermining the arbitrary, laughable Production Code standards set by Hollywood's self-censoring organization, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}