{"id":2586,"date":"2019-08-18T19:47:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T02:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2019-08-19T05:05:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T12:05:35","slug":"blocked-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2586","title":{"rendered":"Blocked Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2349\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>What if your dream is blocked because of circumstances beyond your control? That\u2019s the theme of \u201cWhere\u2019d You Go, Bernadette?\u201d a recently released movie starring Cate Blanchette. Bernadette (Blanchette) is a once successful architect who has spent the last 20 years in a psychological tailspin because one of her masterpieces was destroyed. The tragedy caused her to stop creating.<\/p>\n<p>And what happens when creative people stop doing what they were born to do? It\u2019s the storyline of this movie, which, I\u2019m convinced, will touch audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Because most of us, especially retirees, have \u201cbeen there; done that.\u201d We know what it feels like to have something come between us and our dream.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is entertaining. Bernadette is one funny lady, and when she goes missing before a planned family vacation to Antarctica, the plot gets compelling.<\/p>\n<p>I like good endings with somewhat of a moral, and this story has one. It seems one has to let go of the hurt of lost dreams and move on to new projects.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe in a whole new location.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe in Antarctica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if your dream is blocked because of circumstances beyond your control? That\u2019s the theme of \u201cWhere\u2019d You Go, Bernadette?\u201d a recently released movie starring Cate Blanchette. Bernadette (Blanchette) is a once successful architect who has spent the last 20 years in a psychological tailspin because one of her masterpieces was destroyed. The tragedy caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}