{"id":2379,"date":"2007-04-10T08:30:56","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2007-04-10T08:32:52","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T13:32:52","slug":"the-host-my-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=2379","title":{"rendered":"The Host: My Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Host\" alt=\"The Host\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theboywonder.net\/images\/07170.jpg?w=660\" \/><br \/>\nOn Sunday Franke and I trekked off to see &#8220;<strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hostmovie.com\/\">The Host<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;OMG!&#8221; was it great! It&#8217;s been a really looooong time since I have seen a horror film this fun, scary and moving. It helps that the writer\/director actually give you main characters that you like and care about. It helps that the monster movie thrills are really well done. It helps the movie (and the horror genre in general) that the gore is kept to a bare minimum so those fans of &#8220;horror&#8221; and not &#8220;gore&#8221; can get into the movie as well. It helps that the movie has several subtexts (United States politics, pandemics, Agent Yellow!) that make it resonate more. There is some much good stuff in this movie that I couldn&#8217;t possibly write it all down. I love, love, loved it! Go see it. NOW!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday Franke and I trekked off to see &#8220;The Host&#8221; and &#8220;OMG!&#8221; was it great! It&#8217;s been a really looooong time since I have seen a horror film this fun, scary and moving. It helps that the writer\/director actually give you main characters that you like and care about. It helps that the monster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-Cn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}