{"id":1479,"date":"2007-06-27T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2007-06-27T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T18:00:00","slug":"1408-obligatory-spoiler-alert-sorta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/movies\/1408-obligatory-spoiler-alert-sorta\/","title":{"rendered":"1408 (obligatory spoiler alert &#8230; sorta)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil and I went to see <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0450385\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>1408<\/i><\/a> the other night. It was a decent-enough flick, carried pretty much by John Cusack and his sheer will to get to the end credits. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s based on a Stephen King short story that I&#8217;ve never read, but like some of King&#8217;s other works, it&#8217;s about a writer and a place with a bad reputation and some spiritual residue, and how those environments can bring out the worst in people \u2014 terror, self-doubt, guilt, violence, etc. It was amusing watching Cusack verbally accost the mini-bar, and I got a good wince or two out of the creepy crawly thing in the vent, as well as the dead-daughter-turning-to-ashes bit. Now <i>that&#8217;s<\/i> macabre. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to read the story to see if it&#8217;s scarier than the film. I still contend that <i>The Shining<\/i> is the scariest (fiction) book ever written. Okay, maybe not ever written, but at least that I&#8217;ve read. I remember lying in my bed, heart racing during the topiary garden and fire hose scenes, having to put the book down for a while to settle (I was either in middle or high school during my first reading). But I&#8217;m open to suggestions of other scary fare. I haven&#8217;t read a good scary book in a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil and I went to see 1408 the other night. It was a decent-enough flick, carried pretty much by John Cusack and his sheer will to get to the end credits. It&#8217;s based on a Stephen King short story that I&#8217;ve never read, but like some of King&#8217;s other works, it&#8217;s about a writer and a place with a bad reputation and some spiritual residue, and how those environments can bring out the worst in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-nR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}