{"id":154,"date":"2009-03-11T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2009-03-11T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T01:35:00","slug":"day-28-things-that-i-wish-happened-as-much-in-real-life-as-they-do-in-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Day 28: things that i wish happened as much in real life as they do in the movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>High school ugly duckling getting made over because of a bet, only to have the initially arrogant and somewhat insensitive bet-maker eventually fall in love with them<\/li>\n<li>Precocious children reuniting their ambivalent but divorced parents through non-offensive trickery and adorably poignant expressions of love<\/li>\n<li>People with very little law training but big hearts making stirring courtroom addresses that end in standing ovations and everyone hugging<\/li>\n<li>Some sort of deity or angel appearing to those in desperate need or with a selfless wish and guiding them into being a central catalyst for seeing their change come about<\/li>\n<li>Batman dispensing dark justice at night, with the role having been fulfilled by multiple actors through our history<\/li>\n<li>Time slowing down in situations of great adrenaline or stress<\/li>\n<li>Sports teams with no realistic chance at the beginning of a season somehow managing to win the championship in the season when their beloved coach\/star\/manager is retiring or dying<\/li>\n<li>All large-scale bank or casino robberies being well-planned by a relatively large group of witty friends, each with their own specialties and \u2013 in the grand view \u2013 somehow justified<\/li>\n<li>Dogs sensing an evil person\u2019s intentions and barking only at villains<\/li>\n<li>Everyone having really nice skin<\/li>\n<li>Jaded individuals with cynical views on the world being reformed and turned optimistic simply by staying for a short time in an environment that is the polar opposite of what they are used to<\/li>\n<li>Toys coming to life when not being watched<\/li>\n<li>Ian McKellan being a benevolent wizard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High school ugly duckling getting made over because of a bet, only to have the initially arrogant and somewhat insensitive bet-maker eventually fall in love with them Precocious children reuniting their ambivalent but divorced parents through non-offensive trickery and adorably poignant expressions of love People with very little law training but big hearts making stirring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[41,34],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-list","tag-movie","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}