{"items": [{"author": "Phillip", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/268327356560724?comment_id=268388589887934", "anchor": "fb-268388589887934", "service": "fb", "text": "I fear that it is impossible today to understand the impact that the depression had on people. Both of my parents were from the depression (born in the late teens). While this focuses around a bank, there was still great mistrust of banks, and many people kept cash, so I find it credible that the cash could be raised.", "timestamp": "1325608728"}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1325614067415", "service": "gp", "text": "I think I watched this for a political science class at Swarthmore, but I'm having trouble reconstructing the relevance.", "timestamp": 1325614067}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1325614123969", "service": "gp", "text": "@David Chudzicki\n \"reconstructing the relevance\"?", "timestamp": 1325614123}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1325614146354", "service": "gp", "text": "I mean, figuring out what the point was. Presumably I knew at the time.", "timestamp": 1325614146}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1325614367268", "service": "gp", "text": "@David Chudzicki\n The point of talking about it in the class?  The point of the movie?", "timestamp": 1325614367}, {"author": "David Chudzicki", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/106120852580068301475", "anchor": "gp-1325614440277", "service": "gp", "text": "Former.", "timestamp": 1325614440}, {"author": "Todd", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/112947709146257842066", "anchor": "gp-1325615603709", "service": "gp", "text": "What's wrong with jazz?", "timestamp": 1325615603}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/103013777355236494008", "anchor": "gp-1325616357167", "service": "gp", "text": "@Todd\n Nothing, to me. I interpreted it in the \"world without George Baily\" sequence to be part of how things were worse. It's not what I think of jazz, it's how a 1946 audience would have seen it when surrounded by neon, strip joints, and advertisements for fights.", "timestamp": 1325616357}]}