{"id":129306,"date":"2015-12-31T09:43:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T16:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/31\/in-celebration-of-the-quintessential-christmas-movie.html"},"modified":"2015-12-31T09:43:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T16:43:36","slug":"in-celebration-of-the-quintessential-christmas-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/31\/in-celebration-of-the-quintessential-christmas-movie.html","title":{"rendered":"In celebration of the quintessential Christmas movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or the quintessential 80s movie. Or maybe the quintessential 80s Christmas movie.<\/p>\n<p>(No, seriously, Christmas trappings aside, and even &quot;Hero&#39;s Quest to Get Home for Christmas&quot; notwithstanding, someone with more time than I have right now could lay out the parallels between the Passion of Jesus Christ and the trials and triumphs of John McClane. Hmmm &#8212; maybe that makes it the quintessential <i>Easter<\/i> movie. Only set at Christmas. Ho-ho-ho.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4kXMaToMQTE' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/cp5B1UVgUmo'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or the quintessential 80s movie. Or maybe the quintessential 80s Christmas movie. (No, seriously, Christmas trappings aside, and even &quot;Hero&#39;s Quest to Get Home for Christmas&quot; notwithstanding, someone with more time than I have right now could lay out the parallels between the Passion of Jesus Christ and the trials and triumphs of John McClane. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/31\/in-celebration-of-the-quintessential-christmas-movie.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In celebration of the quintessential Christmas movie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131564,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/18\/movie-review-the-hunt-for-red-october.html","url_meta":{"origin":129306,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;The Hunt for Red October&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 18-Sep-16 12:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"A movie based on a book that was (thankfully) dated by the time it released, it has an all-star cast and decent (practical + CG) FX to do justice to a quintessential Tom Clancy techno-thriller.Full review: http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-hunt-for-red-october\/1\/Original review: http:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/the-hunt-for-red-october\/3.5 stars out of 5 (with a heart)My only regret this evening\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/the-hunt-for-red-october-movie-poster-1990-10201964995B15D.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5599,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/13\/youre_breaking.html","url_meta":{"origin":129306,"position":1},"title":"You&#8217;re breaking up, you&#8217;re breaking up &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Feb-04 7:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't know if I'm more amused or disturbed by this official Mattel press release indicating that Barbie and Ken are quits. 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