{"id":22398,"date":"2021-11-27T08:38:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T13:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=22398"},"modified":"2021-11-27T08:41:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T13:41:23","slug":"a-boy-called-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=22398","title":{"rendered":"A Boy Called Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"942\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/christmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/christmas.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/christmas-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/christmas-768x603.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are many B-grade Christmas movies, of course (and lots of A-grade ones as well). But not all the B-grade ones have a cast that includes Maggie Smith and Jim Broadbent. The B-grade budget is apparent in some of the sets. But some of the Old World scenery is gorgeous, filmed in Finland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p>Nikolas, the boy, is played by Henry Lawfull, a newcomer with a strange face strangely suited to fairy tales and magic. Stephen Merchant is the voice of the mouse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A Boy Called Christmas&#8221; can be streamed on Netflix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many B-grade Christmas movies, of course (and lots of A-grade ones as well). But not all the B-grade ones have a cast that includes Maggie Smith and Jim Broadbent. The B-grade budget is apparent in some of the sets. But some of the Old World scenery is gorgeous, filmed in Finland, the Czech &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=22398\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Boy Called Christmas&#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-22398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22398","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=22398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22402,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22398\/revisions\/22402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}