{"id":768619,"date":"2026-06-29T10:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768619\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:27:13","slug":"a-rabbits-foot-a-film-lovers-guide-to-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/768619\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rabbit&#8217;s Foot A film lover&#8217;s guide to tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale (2005)<\/p>\n<p>The opening of Noah Baumbach\u2019s The Squid and the Whale is a tennis rally, both figuratively and literally, between soon-to-be-divorced couple Bernard (Jeff Daniels) and Joan (Laura Linney). The mixed-doubles match with their two sons divides the family, foreshadowing the reality of their fractured dynamics. Baumbach uses the tennis framework to capture alliances and betrayals, such as when Bernard advises his older son, Walt (Jesse Eisenberg): \u201cIf you can, try and hit it at your mother\u2019s backhand, it\u2019s pretty weak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale (2005) The opening of Noah Baumbach\u2019s The Squid and the Whale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-768619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}