{"id":23982,"date":"2018-12-13T05:49:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T11:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=23982"},"modified":"2018-12-13T08:53:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T14:53:42","slug":"now-that-the-die-hard-battle-is-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/13\/now-that-the-die-hard-battle-is-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Now That The <em>Die Hard<\/em> Battle Is Won&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that all reasonable people agree that <em>Die Hard<\/em> is a Christmas movie (one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/24\/the-ghost-of-christmas-postings-past-top-five-christmas-movies\/\" target=\"_new\">top five<\/a>, in fact), we can move onto proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that these, too, are Christmas movies:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/weirdscience.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/nightofthecomet.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Gentle reader, <em>Weird Science<\/em> and <em>Night of the Comet<\/em> are Christmas movies.<\/p>\n<p>The arguments <em>pro<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In <em>Weird Science<\/em>, when Chet is in toad form, Wyatt expresses fear that he will spoil Christmas.  <em>Night of the Comet<\/em> takes place right before Christmas.<\/li>\n<li><em>Night of the Comet<\/em> features Catherine Mary Stewart, who, in addition to being cuter than <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/reasons-why-the-last-starfighter-is-better-than-star-wars\/\" target=\"_new\">Carrie Fisher<\/em><\/a>, stars in a lot of Christmas movies (see also <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1606191\/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_16\" target=\"_new\">A Christmas Snow<\/em><\/a> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6132948\/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6\" target=\"_new\">A Nutcracker Christmas<\/em><\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The arguments <em>con<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Why do you hate Christmas?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Q.E.D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that all reasonable people agree that Die Hard is a Christmas movie (one of the top five, in fact), we can move onto proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that these, too, are Christmas movies: Gentle reader, Weird Science and Night of the Comet are Christmas movies. The arguments pro: In Weird Science, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23982"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23989,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23982\/revisions\/23989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}