{"id":9495,"date":"2021-12-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9495"},"modified":"2021-12-17T10:00:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:00:32","slug":"24-days-of-desire-18-die-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9495","title":{"rendered":"24 Days of Desire (18): DIE HARD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are a few movies that I like to watch every time the holiday season rolls around. These include but are not strictly limited to: <em>Christmas Vacation<\/em>, <em>Die Hard<\/em>, and <em>The Phantom of the Paradise<\/em>. Of those three movies listed, I own two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/diehard.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/diehard.png 333w, https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/diehard-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite it being the longest running Xmas-time movie tradition in my home, I don&#8217;t actually own a copy of or digital rights to <em>Die Hard<\/em>. I borrow my dad&#8217;s <em>Die Hard<\/em> collection every year, which has the first four films in the series. Usually I only watch the first one, because it&#8217;s set at Xmas. The second one is as well, but&#8230; I dunno. While I like <em>Die Hard 2<\/em> well enough, it just doesn&#8217;t have the same appeal to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, while I can be pretty sure that I&#8217;ll have an easily-accessible copy of Die Hard to borrow for the foreseeable future, I still feel like I should have my own. Because I&#8217;m very materialistic, you see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wait, did I already write this same entry last year? <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8686\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"8686\">More or less<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few movies that I like to watch every time the holiday season rolls around. These include but are not strictly limited to: Christmas Vacation, Die Hard, and The Phantom of the Paradise. Of those three movies listed, I own two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9497,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions\/9497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}