{"id":6290,"date":"2018-01-12T21:08:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T21:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6290"},"modified":"2018-01-12T21:12:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T21:12:24","slug":"darkest-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6290","title":{"rendered":"DARKEST HOUR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0Hard to believe that a film could beat <em>DUNKIRK <\/em>but along comes<em> Darkest Hour <\/em>to prove me wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Darkest Hour is the story of Churchill&#8217;s rise to power amidst the crisis of the European collapse in the face of the Nazi blitzkrieg. Its the political backdrop to the Dunkirk fiasco and the split within Britain&#8217;s wartime cabinet between capitulation and defiance.\u00a0 A hinge moment of history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CHURCHILL-1-of-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6291\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CHURCHILL-1-of-1.jpg\" alt=\"CHURCHILL (1 of 1)\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CHURCHILL-1-of-1.jpg 2448w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CHURCHILL-1-of-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/CHURCHILL-1-of-1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2448px) 100vw, 2448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parliament Square, London<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If there&#8217;s any merit to the Academy Awards, Gary Oldham should have the Oscar for Best Actor sent signed, sealed and delivered for his portrayal of the plucky PM in his moment of greatest crisis. <em>No contest!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Hard to believe that a film could beat DUNKIRK but along comes Darkest Hour to prove me wrong. Darkest Hour is the story of Churchill&#8217;s rise to power amidst the crisis of the European collapse in the face of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6290\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6296,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions\/6296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}