{"id":101,"date":"2008-05-05T07:52:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T23:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=101"},"modified":"2008-05-05T07:52:48","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T23:52:48","slug":"enchanting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/05\/05\/enchanting\/","title":{"rendered":"Enchanting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most lovely shows we\u2019ve seen this year is Walt Disney\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0461770\/\">Enchanted<\/a>. In fact, Ling liked the show &#8211; and songs in it &#8211; so much that she\u2019s taken to including some of that movie\u2019s key phrases into her daily conversations, especially \u201cTrue Love\u2019s Kiss\u201d.:)<\/p>\n<p>Personally, the movie\u2019s most hyped song &#8211; <em>Ever Ever After<\/em> sung by American Idol\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carrie_Underwood\">Carrie Underwood<\/a> &#8211; was rather flat. But the other songs in the movie were stunning, e.g. the three sung by actress <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0010736\/\">Amy Adams<\/a> who plays Giselle. The most striking for me was <em>So Close<\/em>, a lovely song written and sung by a relative-unknown <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jon_McLaughlin\">Jon McLaughlin<\/a> during the ballroom scene towards the end of the movie. It\u2019s now easily among my most two favorite sung songs of any movie (the other is <em>How Do I<\/em> by Trisha Underwood in Con Air).<\/p>\n<p>For those of us who didn\u2019t catch the movie in the theatre or don\u2019t have the DVD for it, here\u2019s the 4 minute movie scene where the <em>So Close<\/em> plays. Enjoy.:)<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AHnZ_vtyJ6E&amp;hl=en\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most lovely shows we\u2019ve seen this year is Walt Disney\u2019s Enchanted. In fact, Ling liked the show &#8211; and songs in it &#8211; so much that she\u2019s taken to including some of that movie\u2019s key phrases into<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/05\/05\/enchanting\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Enchanting<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[563],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-entertainment","tag-music","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-10-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}