{"id":539,"date":"2015-02-10T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/2015\/02\/10\/a-candle-in-the-darkness\/"},"modified":"2018-11-04T18:16:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T18:16:32","slug":"a-candle-in-the-darkness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/2015\/02\/10\/a-candle-in-the-darkness-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Candle in the Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Don&#8217;t get your hopes up. I just wanted to list some of the books, movies and shows that I love which inspire in spite of all the darkness. Some of them I&nbsp; shouldn&#8217;t be admitting to but I&#8217;m including those. Here they are:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">1. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_Band_Society\">The Red Band Society<\/a> (watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox.com\/\">here<\/a>)<br \/>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119217\/\">Good Will Hunting<\/a> (be advised there is a ton of cussing in this&#8230;)<br \/>3. <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenking.com\/library\/bachman_novel\/long_walk_the.html\">The Long Walk<\/a><br \/>4. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loislowry.com\/index.php?option=com_djcatalog2&amp;view=item&amp;id=17:the-giver&amp;cid=4:the-quartet&amp;Itemid=185\">The Giver<\/a> (I actually really like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0435651\/\">movie<\/a> even more than the book, and I love the book)<br \/>5. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Perks_of_Being_a_Wallflower\">The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/a> (once again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1659337\/\">movie<\/a> and book)<br \/>6. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1649419\/\">The Impossible<\/a><br \/>7. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0092005\/\">Stand by Me<\/a><br \/>8. <a href=\"http:\/\/carolplumucci.com\/study\/body-of.pdf\">The Body of Christopher Creed<\/a><br \/>9. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/5148.A_Separate_Peace?from_search=true\">A Separate Peace<\/a><br \/>10. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsearchlight.com\/500daysofsummer\/\">500 Days of Summer<\/a><br \/>11. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starwars.com\/films\/star-wars-episode-ii-attack-of-the-clones\">Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones<\/a><br \/>12. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hatrack.com\/osc\/books\/endersgame\/endersgame.shtml\">Ender&#8217;s Game<\/a><br \/>13. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Pan\">Peter Pan<\/a> (and all <a href=\"http:\/\/neverpedia.com\/pan\/The_Little_White_Bird\">The Little White Bird<\/a> goodness)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Lucky number 13 is, ironic as this sounds, a book\/series I absolutely hate as well. Anyway, I&#8217;ll add links when I&#8217;m at a computer this weekend. Don&#8217;t analyze this list too closely, however, because you&#8217;d likely discover some disturbing trends. Or not so disturbing. Either way.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get your hopes up. I just wanted to list some of the books, movies and shows that I love which inspire in spite of all the darkness. Some of them I&nbsp; shouldn&#8217;t be admitting to but I&#8217;m including those. Here they are: 1. The Red Band Society (watch here)2. Good Will Hunting (be advised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"category-videos","9":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}