{"id":12300,"date":"2009-08-07T01:25:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T08:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/08\/07\/12300.html"},"modified":"2009-08-07T01:25:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T08:25:25","slug":"rip-john-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/08\/07\/rip-john-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P., John Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just happened across the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-et-hughes-appreciation7-2009aug07,0,495789.story\">John Hughes has died<\/a> of a heart attack at age 59.<\/p>\n<p>I never saw most of the later movies he wrote, or even most of the later movies he directed.<\/p>\n<p>But I liked most of the ones I did see, as a teenager, despite my initial scorn of the mainstreamness of teenage sex comedies. I vaguely recall that <cite>The Breakfast Club<\/cite> was the first movie that both my brother and I liked, though I may be misremembering.<\/p>\n<p>That and <cite>Ferris Bueller<\/cite> are, of course, the ones everyone loved, and I liked them both well enough. But the one that I've always had a soft spot for was <cite>Some Kind of Wonderful<\/cite>. IIrc, it didn't hold up well to adult viewing, but (again iIrc) I liked it quite a lot when I first saw it. And the leads sure were attractive.<\/p>\n<p>And I think in addition to making popular movies, Hughes was also influential. I have a theory, though I have no evidence at all of this, that some of the people who made movies like <cite>Ten Things I Hate About You<\/cite> grew up watching Hughes movies. (My theory runs aground a bit on the fact that the director of that movie and the director\/writer of <cite>Clueless<\/cite> were both born in 1954. But one of the writers of <cite>Ten Things<\/cite> was born in 1970, anyway.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. I'm sorry to see him go.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just happened across the news that John Hughes has died of a heart attack at age 59. I never saw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}