{"id":11004,"date":"2025-04-23T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=11004"},"modified":"2025-01-09T15:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T20:37:25","slug":"holidays-in-the-movies-the-day-we-watch-urban-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2025\/04\/23\/holidays-in-the-movies-the-day-we-watch-urban-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays in the Movies: the day we watch Urban Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Like The Fog<\/a><\/em>, Urban Legend<\/em> (1998)<\/a> has its own anniversary. The Stanley Hall Massacre took place on April 24th. The movie takes place on days prior to and during the anniversary of the Stanley Hall Massacre which is now celebrated on the college campus as only Frat houses can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It actually took Richard from Doomedmoviethon<\/a> and I several watches before we figured out when in the year this movie best fit. Now that we have mapped out the year of holidays<\/a> we are often asking ourselves “when do we watch such and such?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like The Fog, Urban Legend (1998) has its own anniversary. The Stanley Hall Massacre took place on April 24th. The movie takes place on days prior to and during the anniversary of the Stanley Hall Massacre which is now celebrated on the college campus as only Frat houses can. It actually took Richard from Doomedmoviethon… Continue reading Holidays in the Movies: the day we watch Urban Legend<\/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":[290,270,21],"class_list":["post-11004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-holidays-in-movies","tag-horror","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9388,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/02\/09\/holidays-in-the-movies-valentines\/","url_meta":{"origin":11004,"position":0},"title":"Holidays in the Movies: Valentines","author":"leems","date":"February 9, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Keeping track of the year by celebrating holidays and the passing of time with curated movies, music, and seasonal food is taking deep root in the Schmidt house. 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