{"id":6640,"date":"2019-11-29T13:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=6640"},"modified":"2019-11-29T12:23:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T17:23:45","slug":"et-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2019\/11\/et-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"ET. Is Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, this is COOL!<\/p>\n<p>In an ad for <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/movies\/et-reunion-henry-thomas-elliott-new-ad\/?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag&amp;utm_campaign=peoplemag&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;fbclid=IwAR3e2vza5KuLetYEzpzMuUsJjdvUxu60wKu3Moh_SSK-7x2ONKlsm05WiHA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xfinity<\/a> &#8211; E.T.\u00a0 &#8211; everyone&#8217;s favourite extra terrestrial &#8211; comes back to earth after 37 years to visit with Elliot and his new family.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a nod to the original movie in this four minute ad &#8211; the Reeces Pieces and that famous bike scene among them.<\/p>\n<p>Watch.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny, watching this, I long for a sequel.\u00a0 I loved that movie as a kid. It was one of the first movies I ever got to see on &#8220;the big screen&#8221;. Going to a movie when we were younger was like winning the lottery. It was a very big deal.<\/p>\n<p>I remember showing this movie to my kids years ago, and they were TERRIFIED.\u00a0 My oldest daughter had nightmares for weeks.<\/p>\n<p>But this &#8211; commercial- is cute and makes me want to watch the movie again.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pdgk3ERKdug\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oh, this is COOL! In an ad for Xfinity &#8211; E.T.\u00a0 &#8211; everyone&#8217;s favourite extra terrestrial &#8211; comes back to earth after 37 years to visit with Elliot and his new family. There&#8217;s a nod to the original movie in this four minute ad &#8211; the Reeces Pieces and that famous bike scene among them.","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":6646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 02:44:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2019\/11\/et-is-back\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6641,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions\/6641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}