{"id":131,"date":"2012-03-24T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2012\/03\/the-hunger-games\/"},"modified":"2012-03-24T21:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T21:20:00","slug":"the-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/johnbeckett\/2012\/03\/the-hunger-games.html","title":{"rendered":"The Hunger Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>\n\n\n\n
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Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I don\u2019t pay a lot of attention to popular culture, but it\u2019s been pretty hard to miss the commotion around this weekend\u2019s premiere of The Hunger Games<\/i>. It looked interesting and Cathy wanted to see it (although neither of us have read the book) so we went this afternoon. We weren\u2019t the only ones \u2013 the theater we were in was packed for a mid-afternoon showing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to summarize the story \u2013 if you\u2019re not familiar with it, 1) you live under a bigger rock than I do, and 2) there are plenty of places you can find a summary. I want to just list some of my impressions of the film, namely<\/p>\n