{"id":10853,"date":"2024-02-16T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=10853"},"modified":"2024-02-07T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T20:18:09","slug":"holidays-in-the-movies-presidents-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/02\/16\/holidays-in-the-movies-presidents-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays in the Movies: President&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"384\" data-attachment-id=\"10858\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/02\/16\/holidays-in-the-movies-presidents-day\/image-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"259,384\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10858\" style=\"width:174px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image.jpeg 259w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-101x150.jpeg 101w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-97x144.jpeg 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coraline_(film)#\/media\/File:Coraline_poster.jpg\">Theatrical release poster for Coraline.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>For Holidays in the Movies, no holiday is too little acknowledged for us to celebrate with a movie.  The only real challenge is finding the movies that definitely place themselves on a holiday of some kind, especially those that don&#8217;t have large cultural celebrations attached.  Well, lucky for you I noticed when Coraline&#8217;s mother, in the 2009 movie <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coraline_(film)\">Coraline<\/a>, <\/em>said that it was President&#8217;s day. So, for President&#8217;s day, until I find more, I will watch <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coraline_(film)\">Coraline<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course there are plenty of thematic lists to rely on as well if you want to go that route as we have for Earth Day and the like.  If you are feeling the theme you will not be spoiled for choices of movies about presidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Holidays in the Movies, no holiday is too little acknowledged for us to celebrate with a movie. The only real challenge is finding the movies that definitely place themselves on a holiday of some kind, especially those that don&#8217;t have large cultural celebrations attached. Well, lucky for you I noticed when Coraline&#8217;s mother, in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/02\/16\/holidays-in-the-movies-presidents-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holidays in the Movies: President&#8217;s Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[290,21],"class_list":["post-10853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-holidays-in-movies","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10450,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/09\/25\/holidays-in-the-movies-calendar-summary\/","url_meta":{"origin":10853,"position":0},"title":"Holidays in the Movies:  calendar summary","author":"leems","date":"September 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the past few years we have been cultivating holiday themed watching to get us in the right frame of mind for every holiday. 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