{"id":103,"date":"2006-12-31T16:31:28","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T15:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mohoyt.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/12\/31\/almost-a-happy-new-year\/"},"modified":"2007-01-01T11:33:57","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T10:33:57","slug":"almost-a-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/2006\/almost-a-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost a happy new year&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well its <i>almost<\/i> a happy new year as today is the last day of 2006, but it really isn&#8217;t 2007 yet because well its not the 1st  of Jan!<\/p>\n<p>Christmas and the general new year period happens to be a really good time of the year for good films on tv. I&#8217;ve recently warched some really funny programs and films on the old tellybox. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Big_Fat_Quiz_of_the_Year\">The Big Fat Quiz of the Year<\/a> 2006 was on at least a few times, but is incredibly funny, especially with David Walliams, Russel Brand, Jonathan Ross and Rob Brydon. Worth a watch as its on again<\/p>\n<p>As usual, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Never_Mind_The_Buzzcocks\">Never Mind The Buzzcocks<\/a> Christmas special was on, which hilariously as usual was very entertaining viewing, just like the regular series. You may even be able to find it on the old net somewhere&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Another few films that I have recently seen which have been exceptionally well made include:-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0253474\/\">The Pianist<\/a>, a Roman Polanski film about a Polish pianist surviving through the Holocaust in Warsaw despite his Jewish background and Nazi occupation of the country. Very moving but brilliantly made&#8230; You can currently pick it up for around \u00a33 at HMV.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0317248\/\">City Of God<\/a>, a Brazilian film about the hoods and gangs in Rio. Absolutely fascinating and very well worth seeing&#8230; It was on TV recently, but can be bought at various places for arounf \u00a35. <\/p>\n<p>Man, I love cheap DVDs and CDs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well its almost a happy new year as today is the last day of 2006, but it really isn&#8217;t 2007 yet because well its not the 1st of Jan! Christmas and the general new year period happens to be a really good time of the year for good films on tv. I&#8217;ve recently warched some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/2006\/almost-a-happy-new-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Almost a happy new year&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohoyt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}