{"id":30,"date":"2004-11-12T10:36:34","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T15:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/12\/top-holiday-flicks\/"},"modified":"2004-11-12T10:41:49","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T15:41:49","slug":"top-holiday-flicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/12\/top-holiday-flicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Holiday Flicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) <strong>A Miracle on 34th Street<\/strong>  (Admittedly not my favorite, or even a holiday necessity, but I needed a 10th, and we have to start somewhere.)<\/p>\n<p>2) <strong>Frosty the Snowman<\/strong>  (&#8220;Happy&#8230; B-b-birth-day!&#8221;) <\/p>\n<p>3) <strong>Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/strong> (If only to make fun of the wool-and-clay animee.) <\/p>\n<p>4) <strong>The Homecoming<\/strong>  (A Walton Family Christmas&#8230;&#8221;G&#8217;night, John-Boy!&#8221;) <\/p>\n<p>5) <strong>Scrooge<\/strong>  (The Albert Finney version, of course.)<\/p>\n<p>6) <strong>White Christmas<\/strong> (Because Bing Crosby looks like my Grampa.) <\/p>\n<p>7) <strong>How the Grinch Stole Christmas<\/strong> (MUST be the old-school version, complete with songs and funky, 70&#8217;s-style, psychadelic color schemes.)<\/p>\n<p>8) <strong>Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown<\/strong> (&#8220;Loo, loo, LOOOOO, loo, loo, LOO LOO loo (gasp) LOO LOO LOOOOOOO loo loo loo loooo&#8230;&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>9) <strong>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<\/strong>  (Jimmy Stewart is my hero.)<\/p>\n<p>10) And last but <em>definitely<\/em> not least&#8230; <strong>A Christmas Story<\/strong>  (&#8220;You&#8217;ll shoot you&#8217;re eye out, kid!&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;Jinger Bears, Jinger Bears, Jinger Are da Raaaay!&#8221;&#8230;I could go on&#8230;and on and on&#8230;this is my all-time favorite Christmas Comedy Classic. It just isn&#8217;t Christmas with Ralphy.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) A Miracle on 34th Street (Admittedly not my favorite, or even a holiday necessity, but I needed a 10th, and we have to start somewhere.) 2) Frosty the Snowman (&#8220;Happy&#8230; B-b-birth-day!&#8221;) 3) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (If only to make fun of the wool-and-clay animee.) 4) The Homecoming (A Walton Family Christmas&#8230;&#8221;G&#8217;night, John-Boy!&#8221;) 5) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bostoncommoner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}