{"id":312,"date":"2007-01-16T17:59:30","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T17:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:39:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:39:27","slug":"the-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/16\/the-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"the holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished watching <strong>The Holiday<\/strong>.  Kate Winslet is lovely.  But I can&#8217;t bring myself to care for Cameron Diaz and I find Jude Law incredibly pompous and irritating &#8211; in spite of that rather touching display of affection in his penultimate scene.  I would have turned it off, Winslet notwithstanding, were it not for this.  Huge chunks of the film bore a striking resemblance to my life.  The good, the bad and the ugly (Eli Wallach pun intended).  <\/p>\n<p>I remember all too well the pivotal breakdown.  The trying to cope with not having the relationship I thought I needed.  Leaving my own country, on a whim, to clear my head in another.  Falling madly, deeply.  On a two week holiday.   With a country and a man.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Dids.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Didsbury, Manchester, England\"><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/thumb-Dids.jpg\" alt=\"Didsbury\"\/ border=0\/><\/center><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was Cameron without the fancy home.  Driving very badly on the wrong side of the road and sleeping in a cottage lined by cobbled streets.  An accidental meeting with a handsome foreigner.  Yup.  Me too.  <\/p>\n<p>And Kate, who spent three years loving a man who didn&#8217;t love her back.  Who didn&#8217;t want her to stay but wouldn&#8217;t let her go either.  More me.  <\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/31\/not-so-super-model\/\" target=_blank>another story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just finished watching The Holiday. Kate Winslet is lovely. But I can&#8217;t bring myself to care for Cameron Diaz and I find Jude Law incredibly pompous and irritating &#8211; in spite of that rather touching display of affection in his penultimate scene. I would have turned it off, Winslet notwithstanding, were it not for<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}