{"id":5079,"date":"2013-04-01T18:52:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T23:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=5079"},"modified":"2013-07-07T13:08:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T18:08:27","slug":"knitting-movie-review-the-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=5079","title":{"rendered":"Knitting Movie Review: The Host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Husband and I met my Twilight crew after work on Friday to watch The Host at Flix Brewhouse. I recommend their fried pickles (even if you don&#8217;t normally like fried pickles).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSCF1095-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The_Host_Crew\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSCF1095-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSCF1095-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nI made progress on stripy sock two for my tiny friend that LOVES socks, but does not yet know how to knit.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSCF1099_crop-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"movie_knitting\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSCF1099_crop-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DSCF1099_crop-1024x716.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nOverall, the movie was a good adaptation of the book. There were some great sets, nice special effects, and adequate acting. Chrome dipped Lotuses and helicopters added the shiny factor and the humor from the book carried over remarkably well. (SPOILER ALERT) My main complaint was that the body Wanda ended up in looked too much like Melanie. Creepy.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/The_Host_Poster1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Host\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/The_Host_Poster1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/The_Host_Poster1.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Husband and I met my Twilight crew after work on Friday to watch The Host at Flix Brewhouse. I recommend their fried pickles (even if you don&#8217;t normally like fried pickles). I made progress on stripy sock two for my tiny friend that LOVES socks, but does not yet know how to knit. Overall, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[305,254],"class_list":["post-5079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","category-movie-dvd-reviews","tag-knitting-movie-review","tag-the-host"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6099,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions\/6099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}