{"id":2518,"date":"2020-12-15T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2020-12-11T09:25:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T14:25:02","slug":"go-watch-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2020\/12\/go-watch-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Watch *Monsters*"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/review\/primary_image\/reviews\/monsters-2010\/EB20101117REVIEWS101119967AR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"186\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I had no idea they even <em>had<\/em> free feature-length movies on YouTube.  Anyway, go watch <em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PH-quh5DQVk\">Monsters<\/a><\/em>. It&#8217;s just as good as I remember it being in the theaters; back then it felt like it was mostly about U.S. foreign\/immigration policy with a smattering of Chernobyl anxiety (this was back in 2010). Now, in the midst of a plague year, it feels like it&#8217;s sort of about a lot more. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, are you finding that, when watching old movies now, you&#8217;re often distracted by how close people stand to each other, how blithely they enter each other&#8217;s homes or push into crowds, maskless? How we used to live was crazy, right? &#x1f637; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ol6j9xlQN1w\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea they even had free feature-length movies on YouTube. Anyway, go watch Monsters. It&#8217;s just as good as I remember it being in the theaters; back then it felt like it was mostly about U.S. foreign\/immigration policy with a smattering of Chernobyl anxiety (this was back in 2010). Now, in the midst &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2020\/12\/go-watch-monsters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Go Watch *Monsters*&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[3],"tags":[95,543,468,545,116,544,53],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}