{"id":1471,"date":"2008-07-08T23:52:48","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T23:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2008-07-08T23:52:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T23:52:48","slug":"kevin_bacons_birthday_and_a_fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/08\/kevin_bacons_birthday_and_a_fo\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Bacon&#8217;s Birthday and a Footloose Remake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/kevin-bacon_footloose.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kevin-bacon_footloose.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/kevin-bacon_footloose-thumb.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, I was just out to my mom&#8217;s place and happened to catch a few minutes of <i>EntertainmentInsideHollywoodAccessTonight<\/i>, and what I heard during those few minutes utterly blew my mind: today is Kevin Bacon&#8217;s <i>fiftieth<\/i> birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Let me repeat that: Kevin Bacon &#8212; one of my favorite actors, the star of one of my favorite movies (<i>Footloose<\/i>), the guy who brought to life the quintessential 1980s &#8220;rebel <i>with<\/i> a cause&#8221; (Ren McCormack, one of my many heroes during my high school years), the guy who everyone else is only six degrees away from &#8212; has just hit the half-century mark.<\/p>\n<p>And if <i>that<\/i> isn&#8217;t alarming enough, they also said that there&#8217;s a big-screen remake of <i>Footloose<\/i> in the works starring the tween sensation du jour, Zac Efron.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to go lie down with a cool cloth on my head now. God, I feel old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was just out to my mom&#8217;s place and happened to catch a few minutes of EntertainmentInsideHollywoodAccessTonight, and what I heard during those few minutes utterly blew my mind: today is Kevin Bacon&#8217;s fiftieth birthday. Let me repeat that: Kevin Bacon &#8212; one of my favorite actors, the star of one of my favorite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}