{"id":531,"date":"2007-12-25T13:27:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T19:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/25\/a-white-christmas"},"modified":"2007-12-25T13:29:19","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T19:29:19","slug":"a-white-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/25\/a-white-christmas","title":{"rendered":"A White Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s snowing on Christmas Day here. I think it&#8217;s because we watched <em>White Christmas<\/em> last night. &#8220;They don&#8217;t make &#8217;em like they used to&#8221; is a phrase that certainly comes to mind when watching that movie. It&#8217;s not the best of musicals, but it&#8217;s interesting to note that it was the highest-grossing film in the year it was released.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/image.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth noting that the film opens during WWII with Bing Crosby entertaining his fellow troops in an impromptu Christmas show in a bombed-out building with explosions flashing in the distance. Once again, the U.S. has thousands of citizens spending Christmas away from their families because they&#8217;re serving as troops during wartime. (This time the war was started by us, on false pretenses, with no clear goal and no exit strategy. Oh, and by the way, we&#8217;ve already spent more on restorations efforts in Iraq than we spent to rebuild Japan after WWII, and there&#8217;s not much to show for our efforts. But I digress.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"396\" src=\"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/image-1.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s snowing on Christmas Day here. I think it&#8217;s because we watched White Christmas last night. &#8220;They don&#8217;t make &#8217;em like they used to&#8221; is a phrase that certainly comes to mind when watching that movie. It&#8217;s not the best of musicals, but it&#8217;s interesting to note that it was the highest-grossing film in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/25\/a-white-christmas\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A White Christmas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}