{"id":2575,"date":"2007-06-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2007-06-09T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T22:00:00","slug":"2575","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2575","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Okay, so I knew <i>Die Hard<\/i> was originally based on a book of some sort, but I never knew this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The movie is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled <i>Nothing Lasts Forever<\/i>, itself a sequel to the book <i>The Detective<\/i>, which was previously made into a 1968 movie starring Frank Sinatra.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m just trying to picture Frank Sinatra as John McClane&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Die_Hard\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I knew Die Hard was originally based on a book of some sort, but I never knew this: The movie is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever, itself a sequel to the book The Detective, which was previously made into a 1968 movie starring Frank Sinatra. I&#8217;m &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2575\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}