{"id":278,"date":"2014-08-06T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/john-hughes-day\/"},"modified":"2014-09-08T21:21:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T21:21:34","slug":"john-hughes-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/john-hughes-day\/","title":{"rendered":"John Hughes Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/merryholidays.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/chechik01.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"chechik01\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-783\" \/>Today is Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 and there are only 141 days until <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Today is <strong><em>John Hughes Day<\/em><\/strong>, a modern and towering figure in the culture of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Born on this day in 1950 John Hughes became one of the most prolific screenwriters and film makers of the 1980s and 1990s. In the world of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Hughes is credited with writing mega-Christmas hit <em>Home Alone<\/em>, the story of a boy accidentally left home alone at <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> time. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Home Alone was quite the sensation. It broke box office records with nearly half a billion in revenue from theater ticket sales alone and it spawned several other films in sequel that did very well. <em>Home Alone<\/em> was not Hughes\u2019 first <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> work.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes created the Griwold family of Vacation fame, whose characters went on to play in <em>National Lampoon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Vacation<\/em>, now considered every bit the class that <em>It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/em> is.  <\/p>\n<p>Though not a <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> movie another John Hughes classic gets regular play during <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">Thanksgiving<\/a> and is considered by many to be a natural handoff to the <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> movie-watching season. That movie is titled <em>Planes, Trains and Automobiles<\/em>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 and there are only 141 days until Christmas. Today is John Hughes Day, a modern and towering figure in the culture of Christmas. Born on this day in 1950 John Hughes became one of the most prolific screenwriters and film makers of the 1980s and 1990s. In the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[272],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-countdown","tag-christmas-countdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}