{"id":178,"date":"2009-08-11T01:53:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T01:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.wordpress.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2009-08-11T01:53:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T01:53:40","slug":"motel-hell-free-hbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/11\/motel-hell-free-hbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Motel Hell: Free HBO! With &quot;Red Dawn&quot; Exclusive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After about two weeks of traveling, which included visiting family in St. Louis, I&#8217;m back in Pennsylvania, house painting, breathing a sigh that I have DirecTV again. The various motels we slept in while crossing the Heartland all seemed to have the same horrible cable TV, with a lineup that resembles what a victim watches in a tacky motel room as we go to &#8220;Killer Cam&#8221; viewpoint: Chuck Norris kicking or exploding something, infomercials about miracle towels and natural male enhancement pills, the occasional AMC classic like <em>Red Dawn<\/em>.<br \/>\nI just saw an infotainment piece about Tom Cruise&#8217;s son starring in a remake of that grade -B action movie where the Soviets invade and take over the US, starting in Colorado, of all places (&#8220;Go Wolverines!&#8221;).<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/article\/0,,20285234,00.html?xid=partner-CNNHome-%27Red+Dawn%27%3A+Casting+exclusive%21<br \/>\nThe best scene is the Soviet paratrooper invasion at the beginning, machine-gunning the school like the ruthless do-badders they were.<br \/>\nIt makes me wonder: How old is Cruise&#8217;s son? Is this going to be Red Nightlight: The Toddler Invasion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After about two weeks of traveling, which included visiting family in St. Louis, I&#8217;m back in Pennsylvania, house painting, breathing a sigh that I have DirecTV again. The various motels we slept in while crossing the Heartland all seemed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/11\/motel-hell-free-hbo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}