{"id":5397,"date":"2026-05-27T08:40:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5397"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:45:36","slug":"dazed-date-turns-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5397","title":{"rendered":"Dazed date turns 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the movie-on-a-particular-day guy (I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1667866672?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_6VBPHP4P5YVA9TX5XGZ9\">the book<\/a> on it), so I&#8217;ve got to point out when there&#8217;s a really good one.<\/p>\n<p>The final day of school at Lee High School in the movie\u00a0<em>Dazed and Confused<\/em> is May 28, 1976. (For those of you a bit dazed and\/or confused, that means the 50th anniversary is tomorrow.) Sure,\u00a0<em>Dazed<\/em> didn&#8217;t come out until 1993, but it takes place in a single day (well, overnight), May 28, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>In my book I have it to watch on June 9, because May 28 just seemed too early to end a schoolyear.<\/p>\n<p>Southern schools always ended their years early&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>until\u00a0<em>I<\/em> started teaching at one, but I digress.<\/p>\n<p>And I know what movie I&#8217;m watching tomorrow night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the movie-on-a-particular-day guy (I wrote the book on it), so I&#8217;ve got to point out when there&#8217;s a really good one. The final day of school at Lee High School in the movie\u00a0Dazed and Confused is May 28, 1976. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5397\">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-5397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397","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=5397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5398,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5397\/revisions\/5398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}