{"id":383,"date":"2007-06-28T14:22:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T18:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/383"},"modified":"2007-06-28T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T18:22:38","slug":"movie-akeelah-and-the-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/383","title":{"rendered":"Movie: Akeelah and the Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a sucker for spelling bees. Our elementary school spelling bee was one of the highlights of the year when I was a school principal. And I always try to catch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spellingbee.com\/\">Scripps National Spelling Bee<\/a>&#8212;a <i>real<\/i> nail-biting sporting event! <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/akeelah1.jpg' alt='akeelah1.jpg' \/><br \/>\nKeke Palmer (as Akeelah) and Lawrence Fishburne<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no surprise then that I so enjoyed the 2006 movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akeelahandthebee.com\/\">Akeelah and the Bee<\/a> (1 hr. 52 min.).  The movie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s production is superb and the acting by the protagonist, young Keke Palmer is outstanding&#8212;nothing short of amazing, really. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on the screen in almost every shot and yet every second of her presence is believable. After watching her performance one realizes that most big screen \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hollywood actors\u00e2\u20ac\u009d don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come close to having her range. <\/p>\n<p>This is an inspiring film, suitable for family viewing or church audiences. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/galindobanner3.jpg' alt='galindobanner3.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>By the way, the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee winning word was: serrefine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a sucker for spelling bees. Our elementary school spelling bee was one of the highlights of the year when I was a school principal. And I always try to catch the Scripps National Spelling Bee&#8212;a real nail-biting sporting event!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews-and-recommendations-on-movies-and-films-about-faith-life-systems-etc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}