{"id":20713,"date":"2021-03-23T12:16:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=20713"},"modified":"2021-03-23T12:21:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:21:30","slug":"born-into-the-wrong-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=20713","title":{"rendered":"Born into the wrong world"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-provider=\"html5\" id=\"arve-html5-\" style=\"max-width:854px;\" class=\"arve\">\n\t<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"arve-embed\">\n\t\t\t<video class=\"arve-video fitvidsignore\" controls controlslist=\"\" data-arve=\"arve-html5-\" onloadstart=\"this.volume=1\" preload=\"metadata\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/wedding-scene.mp4\"><\/video>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\n\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/acornabbey.com\\\/blog\\\/?p=20713#arve-html5-\",\"@type\":\"VideoObject\",\"contentURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/acornabbey.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/03\\\/wedding-scene.mp4\"}<\/script>\n\t\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<em>&#8220;Gentleman Jack,&#8221; season 1, episode 2. Copyright, HBO, BBC: Fair use, not monetized.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The second episode of &#8220;Gentleman Jack&#8221; contains one of the most brilliant, beautiful and touching scenes I can remember. Other than the recitation of the priest, there is not even any dialogue. The scene&#8217;s entire meaning is conveyed by the sequence of expressions on Anne Lister&#8217;s face. (Anne Lister is played by Suranne Jones.) Anne, with a broken heart, has changed her mind at the last moment and has decided to go down to London for the wedding of her former lover. <\/p>\n<p>I know very little about Anne Lister. One probably would have to read her diaries (as the producers certainly did) to guess what might be going through her mind. But what I see in this scene is an acute awareness of being born into the wrong world; the knowledge that celebrations always will be for someone else, never for her; a stoic attitude and a resolve not to be crushed; and a determination to seize as much from life as she can from a world that isn&#8217;t ready for her. Every word of the priest is like being shot with an arrow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gentleman Jack&#8221; is available for streaming at HBO Max.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Gentleman Jack,&#8221; season 1, episode 2. Copyright, HBO, BBC: Fair use, not monetized. The second episode of &#8220;Gentleman Jack&#8221; contains one of the most brilliant, beautiful and touching scenes I can remember. Other than the recitation of the priest, there is not even any dialogue. The scene&#8217;s entire meaning is conveyed by the sequence of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=20713\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Born into the wrong world&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20713"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20729,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20713\/revisions\/20729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}