{"id":29756,"date":"2022-04-17T16:33:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T21:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29756"},"modified":"2022-04-17T16:33:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T21:33:29","slug":"the-perfect-easter-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/17\/the-perfect-easter-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Easter Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, we at MfBJN have conclusively proven that <em>Lethal Weapon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/27\/movie-report-the-ref-1994\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">is a Christmas movie<\/a>, and we have admitted that <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/26\/scandalous-christmas-eve-shenanigans-from-nogglestead\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Lethal Weapon 2<\/em><\/a> is not a Christmas movie.  But hear me now and believe me later:<\/p>\n<p><em>Lethal Weapon 2<\/em> is an Easter movie.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it is not set during the Easter season that I can tell; however, review the following:&#8217;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SpawNiniHQs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Martin Riggs is tortured;<\/li>\n<li>Riggs carries the means of his execution to the place of execution;<\/li>\n<li>Riggs &#8220;dies&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>He descends to a watery grave;<\/li>\n<li>He rises again;<\/li>\n<li>In his second coming, he brings justice and retribution to the wicked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You see: It was <em>The Passion of the Christ<\/em> before Gibson had enough clout to make the movie he really wanted to make.<\/p>\n<p>Follow me for more insight into how the <em>Lethal Weapon<\/em> movies all deal with important events on the church calendar, and how <em>Bird on a Wire<\/em> is a documentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, we at MfBJN have conclusively proven that Lethal Weapon is a Christmas movie, and we have admitted that Lethal Weapon 2 is not a Christmas movie. But hear me now and believe me later: Lethal Weapon 2 is an Easter movie. Now, it is not set during the Easter season that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29756","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=29756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29757,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29756\/revisions\/29757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}