{"id":54884,"date":"2025-08-09T11:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/54884\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T11:59:07","slug":"why-my-oxford-year-falls-flat-next-to-2000s-dramas-like-a-walk-to-remember-because-heartbreak-needs-more-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/54884\/","title":{"rendered":"Why My Oxford Year falls flat next to 2000s dramas like A Walk to Remember\u2014 because heartbreak needs more heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scrolling journey continues, and then you stop at A Walk to Remember. Ah, the early 2000s. Starring Mandy Moore and Shane West in the lead roles, you return to a time when melodrama did exist: But it was with so much flair and heart, that your heart did twinge. The story followed a straightforward formula, a format that would now spawn a million parody reels: Cool tough guy, falling in love with soft nerdy girl, who has a terminal illness. Study groups, a play, and bang, feelings bloom. Tough guy isn\u2019t so tough anymore, you know the rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The scrolling journey continues, and then you stop at A Walk to Remember. Ah, the early 2000s. Starring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-54884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}