{"id":2265,"date":"2019-02-18T09:05:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T05:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:05:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T05:05:01","slug":"new-lego-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2265","title":{"rendered":"New Lego movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps I expected too much from\u00a0<em>The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part.\u00a0<\/em>The first one was good; they set the bar high. Too high, perhaps, for in the sequel&#8230; everything\u2019s not quite awesome.<\/p>\n<p>My son loved it. He\u2019s four. I think the reason the movie appeals to young kids is that it sort of looks like a disjointed string of YouTube videos. You know&#8230; 21st-century entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I will say about the movie. The music is fantastic. I\u2019m a music snob, and I say the music is fantastic. And really, how bad can the movie be? It does combine two of my favorite things: Legos and movies.<\/p>\n<p>If I could just get cookie dough involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps I expected too much from\u00a0The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part.\u00a0The first one was good; they set the bar high. Too high, perhaps, for in the sequel&#8230; everything\u2019s not quite awesome. My son loved it. He\u2019s four. I think &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2265\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}