{"id":201,"date":"2004-01-20T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-20T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/?p=201"},"modified":"2004-01-20T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-20T13:33:00","slug":"its-official-the-lord-of-the-rings-return-of-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/20\/its-official-the-lord-of-the-rings-return-of-t","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s official &#8211; The Lord of the Rings: Return of t&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official &#8211; The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King is now my favorite trilogy of all time.  Taken as a collective whole, it&#8217;s better and more enjoyable than Back To The Future, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and yes, even the Godfather.  Will this set a precedent on how to do trilogies?  We were so excited to see this movie that this was the first thing we did after enduring a 30 hour trip back to Pittsburgh.  Yup, we went straight to the movie theater after coming from the airport.   It was well worth it though &#8211; now I can&#8217;t wait to have the extended edition of this movie (which I hear will be out in August to September).  <\/p>\n<p>If this movie doesn&#8217;t win the best picture this year, it will be a crime.<\/p>\n<p>The down side to this trilogy ending is that it&#8217;s over and done with &#8211; no more LOTR movies to look forward to.  I hope they get started on a movie version of The Hobbit, with none other than Peter Jackson at the helm.  In the meantime, there&#8217;s other movies this year to look forward to &#8211; among them Spider-Man 2, Hellboy, and I&#8217;m also looking forward to seeing The Adventures of Riddick (the sequel to the much underrated Pitch Black).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I just learned recently that a cousin of mine, who is a US Marine, has been deployed to Iraq for a 6 month tour of duty.  We hope and pray for his safety while he defends the country.  We&#8217;re all very proud of you, Adrian!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official &#8211; The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King is now my favorite trilogy of all time. Taken as a collective whole, it&#8217;s better and more enjoyable than Back To The Future, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, and yes, even the Godfather. Will this set a precedent on how to do trilogies? We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefranciscos.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}