{"id":1299,"date":"2006-10-15T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T15:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2006-10-15T12:02:37","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T15:02:37","slug":"the-bulge-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"The bulge, huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">L<\/span>ast night, The History Channel showed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0058947\/\">&#8216;The Battle of the bulge&#8217;<\/a>, a typical 60s\/70s war movie depicting the 1944 hard fought battle in the Ardennes. Typical, because it features many big screen stars in a story that is not soo close to the truth. Obviously, back in the days, most of the effects were filmed in the studio using miniature models and that.\n<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the essence of these kind of Hollywood movies is to have people look up the actual stories behind the film (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_the_Bulge\">Wikipedia<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>Which reminds me that Eastwood&#8217;s war movie (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0418689\/\">&#8216;Flags of our fathers&#8217;<\/a>) is supposed to be in theatres really soon. &#8216;Flags&#8217; tells the story of the soldiers that raised the flag on Iwo Jima. Eastwood also directed a movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0498380\/\">telling the other side&#8217;s story<\/a> (which is now in postproduction).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, The History Channel showed &#8216;The Battle of the bulge&#8217;, a typical 60s\/70s war movie depicting the 1944 hard fought battle in the Ardennes. Typical, because it features many big screen stars in a story that is not soo &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1299\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}