{"id":433,"date":"2011-01-09T20:21:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T01:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbyvanburen.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2011-01-09T20:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T01:21:10","slug":"under-the-mistletoe-is-a-new-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/2011\/01\/09\/under-the-mistletoe-is-a-new-favorite\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Mistletoe is a New Favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for the post from Lynn Guy<\/p>\n<p>Just recently I saw a movie which has now become my favorite Christmas movie, Under the Mistletoe which was made in 2006. It airs every year on TV. That&#8217;s where I saw it, while watching Direct TV last week.<\/p>\n<p>I was so happy when I tuned in and saw Michael Shanks as the main male star. I recognized him from Stargate SG-1 where he played Daniel Jackson. This character is far removed from that. He&#8217;s Kevin Harrison, a hockey coach and counselor at a private school.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin meets Susan Chandler (Jaime Ray Newman), a widow still adjusting to her husband&#8217;s death the Christmas before. She has a young son who insists that he is still talking with his dead father.<\/p>\n<p>The son is played by a kid named Burkley Duffield, and he&#8217;s just great. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve seen him before in something, but I don&#8217;t know what. He has spunk, though, and he does very well playing Jonathan, the son.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a conversation between the dead father and son that really impressed me. It has to do with being open and believing as well as with letting go of anger. There&#8217;s a touch of forgiveness included in the conversation. Another bit talks about seeing what&#8217;s right in front of you.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a perfect picture, but this one hit home, and I really love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for the post from Lynn Guy Just recently I saw a movie which has now become my favorite Christmas movie, Under the Mistletoe which was made in 2006. It airs every year on TV. That&#8217;s where I saw it, while watching Direct TV last week. I was so happy when I tuned in and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/2011\/01\/09\/under-the-mistletoe-is-a-new-favorite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Under the Mistletoe is a New Favorite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}