{"id":422,"date":"2003-11-26T18:12:32","date_gmt":"2003-11-26T21:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=422"},"modified":"2003-11-26T18:12:32","modified_gmt":"2003-11-26T21:12:32","slug":"back-to-the-day-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Back to &#8216;The Day after&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span>mentioned the TV movie &#8216;The Day After&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/archives\/000712.html\">earlier<\/a>) before, the movie that influenced many other fellow Europeans including me. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenbarefoot.com\">Barefoot<\/a> again, the notice that the movie was shot <a href=\"http:\/\/lawrence.com\/news\/movie_specials\/story\/124521\">exactly 20 years ago<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The article as linked above doesn&#8217;t only discuss the movie (clips!) but examines how it changed the mindset of the (then) Reagan administration. Says Meyer (the director):\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;When he (<em>ed: Reagan<\/em>) signed the Intermediate Range Weapons Agreement at Reykjavik (in 1986) with Gorbachev, I got a telegram from his administration that said, \u2018Don&#8217;t think your movie didn&#8217;t have any part of this, because it did&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imentioned the TV movie &#8216;The Day After&#8217; (earlier) before, the movie that influenced many other fellow Europeans including me. Via Barefoot again, the notice that the movie was shot exactly 20 years ago. The article as linked above doesn&#8217;t only &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=422\">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":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422"}],"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=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}