{"id":3015,"date":"2020-12-18T09:53:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T05:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2020-12-18T16:53:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T12:53:56","slug":"christmas-rom-com-happiest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3015","title":{"rendered":"Christmas + rom-com = Happiest Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past week or so my newsfeed has been abuzz with word about <em>the\u00a0<\/em>holiday movie this year,\u00a0<em>Happiest Season<\/em>. Produced by Hulu and available for streaming on said site, the film offers a host of A and B-list stars doing typical rom-com things in typical 21st-century fashion. That is, half the characters are gay and half are unhip, unwoke bitter clingers.<br \/>\nNever mind the stereotypes, the movie\u2019s actually pretty great. Totally predictable? Yeah, at every turn. Still enjoyable though.<br \/>\nMost \u201cdebate\u201d surrounding the film concerns its protagonist\u2019s choice of suitor at the conclusion. Like, they were surprised. (Spoiler alert: it\u2019s the second-billed actor!) A little something about romantic comedy films&#8230; the two main characters get together at the end. Have these people never seen a rom-com before?<br \/>\nEven in the most woke of times there are some formulas you just don\u2019t mess with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past week or so my newsfeed has been abuzz with word about the\u00a0holiday movie this year,\u00a0Happiest Season. Produced by Hulu and available for streaming on said site, the film offers a host of A and B-list stars doing &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=3015\">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-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","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=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3018,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}