{"id":2308,"date":"2015-12-02T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karyngood.com\/blog\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2015-12-02T18:27:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T18:27:17","slug":"holiday-movie-favourites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karyngood.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/holiday-movie-favourites\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Movie Favourites"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s Holiday Movie Time!<\/h1>\n<p>If you&#8217;re into the holidays you probably have a favourite holiday movie. And goodness gravy are there ever a lot of them out there. I swear they&#8217;ve been on since the middle of November. Hallmark has a whole trove of them. They&#8217;ve been redone, reworked, re-everything. I have to confess I don&#8217;t watch many of them. I also don&#8217;t start watching any of them until mid-December. But I have my favourites!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">My Top <del>Five<\/del> <del>Six<\/del> Seven Favourite Holiday Movies!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Love Actually<\/li>\n<li>The Holiday<\/li>\n<li>Elf<\/li>\n<li>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/li>\n<li>The Santa Clause<\/li>\n<li>Die Hard<\/li>\n<li>Muppet Christmas Carol<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Christmas doesn&#8217;t usually dissolve into chaos like National Lampoon&#8217;s Christmas Vacation. Thankfully, we&#8217;ve never left anyone Home Alone. We&#8217;ve never had to deal with Gremlins. And we&#8217;ve never been the stressed out parents in Jingle All The Way. So, I guess I can safely say real life is nothing like the movies! Thank goodness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/karyngood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1508.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2313\" src=\"http:\/\/karyngood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1508-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1508\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/karyngood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1508-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/karyngood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1508-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I cuddle under a blanket, sip hot chocolate, and nibble on gingerbread while laughing at Colin Firth learning Spanish, swooning over Hugh Grant as Prime Minister, heart breaking for Liam Neeson. Emma Thompson is one of my favourite actors. And what&#8217;s a holiday movie without porn star stand-ins. It&#8217;s got it all. Love&#8217;s delightful twists and turns. And that airport scene? And the reunions of real people? Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>What are some of your favourite holiday movies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Holiday Movie Time! If you&#8217;re into the holidays you probably have a favourite holiday movie. And goodness gravy are there ever a lot of them out there. I swear they&#8217;ve been on since the middle of November. 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