{"id":62,"date":"2010-02-02T09:07:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T15:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2010-02-02T09:07:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T15:07:25","slug":"it%e2%80%99s-groundhog-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Groundhog Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, today is Groundhog Day.\u00a0 It really snuck up on me this year.\u00a0 I usually try to watch the Bill Murray movie, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Groundhog Day<\/span>, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to get to it this year, unless it\u2019s on TV tonight.\u00a0 Oh, Hey!\u00a0 After a quick internet search, it looks like it\u2019s on Bravo tonight at 5:00 pm Central Time.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be setting the DVR for that.\u00a0 (Thank you AT&amp;T U-Verse Web Remote Access.)<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I think this movie is fantastic, and I always look forward to February 2 to remind me to watch it again.\u00a0 It probably goes back to my previous post that asserted that every movie speaks to everyone differently depending on the time, place, and circumstances in which you first saw it, but this movie really hits on something that speaks to me and it\u2019s tough to pinpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s the main character who has a cold exterior but deep down finds a loving heart.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s the juxtaposition of the city life versus the small town life.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s the underlying tones of having a monotonous job.\u00a0 Or maybe it\u2019s that Andie MacDowell is completely gorgeous and mesmerizing throughout the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it is that keeps drawing me back to this movie, I recommend you try to watch it this week, if for no other reason than to, ironically, relive the fun of reliving the same day over and over again. (Bravo is also showing it on the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, and 5<sup>th<\/sup> of the month \u2013 check your local listings.)<\/p>\n<p>According to the press releases, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/35194650\/ns\/us_news-life\/\">Punxsutawney Phil did see his shadow today which means 6 more weeks of winter<\/a>.\u00a0 So it looks like we\u2019ll be reliving these cold-weather days everyday for a little while longer.\u00a0 All the more reason to stay in and watch a good movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, today is Groundhog Day.\u00a0 It really snuck up on me this year.\u00a0 I usually try to watch the Bill Murray movie, Groundhog Day, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019m going to get to it this year, unless it\u2019s[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/?p=62\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/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-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmstripcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}