{"id":177,"date":"2011-09-08T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T23:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=177"},"modified":"2011-09-08T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T23:37:08","slug":"sorry-about-that-mcclane-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Sorry About That, McClane-Wasp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned <a title=\"Bonechilling Ideas Close Up\" href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=158\">before<\/a>, I have finally found and destroyed McClane-wasp, but he was a worthy foe.\u00a0 So it is with a heavy heart that I must link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/monkeysee\/2011\/09\/01\/140110722\/take-this-under-advisement-hey-die-hard-5-dont-drag-down-a-classic\">this post<\/a>, which points out the many ways in which the upcoming Die Hard movie will fall short of the original.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/monkeysee\/2011\/09\/01\/140110722\/take-this-under-advisement-hey-die-hard-5-dont-drag-down-a-classic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-178\" title=\"die_hard_1988_3\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/die_hard_1988_3-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/die_hard_1988_3-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/die_hard_1988_3.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>McClane wasp deserved better, and so did the human McClane.\u00a0 Bruce Willis, on the other hand, is apparently on board with this thing, and I only hope the wheelbarrow loads of money he gets for it can assuage the guilt to some extent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I have finally found and destroyed McClane-wasp, but he was a worthy foe.\u00a0 So it is with a heavy heart that I must link to this post, which points out the many ways in which the upcoming Die Hard movie will fall short of the original. McClane wasp deserved better, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bonechilling-ideas","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}