{"id":10883,"date":"2024-04-21T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=10883"},"modified":"2024-03-15T10:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T14:22:23","slug":"holidays-in-the-movies-april-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/04\/21\/holidays-in-the-movies-april-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays in the Movies: April 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sometimes movies aren’t just a way of celebrating a holiday, they are a reason to have one: a movie holiday of sorts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Carpenter’s 1980 The Fog<\/em><\/a> takes place very plainly on April 21st, so April 21st is the day we watch The Fog<\/em> to celebrate the anniversary of Antonio Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes movies aren’t just a way of celebrating a holiday, they are a reason to have one: a movie holiday of sorts. John Carpenter’s 1980 The Fog takes place very plainly on April 21st, so April 21st is the day we watch The Fog to celebrate the anniversary of Antonio Bay.<\/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-10883","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":10883,"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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