{"id":998,"date":"2009-05-02T13:29:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T19:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=998"},"modified":"2009-12-28T02:11:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T08:11:42","slug":"ghosts-of-girlfriends-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=998","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts of Girlfriends Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a really easy review, because of how the story is well-covered ground. You know, A Christmas Carol? Or the Disney version, or the Muppets version, or the Bill Murray version? I&#8217;m saying, you know this story, and <a title=\"You can't always run from your past\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0821640\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ghosts of Girlfriends Past<\/a> does itself the service of not leaping out with a sudden surprise twist that leaves you wondering if you&#8217;re watching the right movie after all. The question, then, is what&#8217;s the point of watching a romantic comedy remake of an old story you&#8217;ve already seen (or read) several times? The point is this: it&#8217;s very, very funny. Funny via quite a few different genres of humor. It&#8217;s also a little bit sweet, like you&#8217;d expect from the &#8220;romantic comedy&#8221; tag, but it&#8217;s not cloying by any means. Mostly, though, funny. If you like laughing for an hour or two, check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a really easy review, because of how the story is well-covered ground. You know, A Christmas Carol? Or the Disney version, or the Muppets version, or the Bill Murray version? I&#8217;m saying, you know this story, and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past does itself the service of not leaping out with a sudden surprise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[113,114,51,115],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-funny","tag-remake","tag-romantic-comedy","tag-well-trodden-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}