{"id":17605,"date":"2017-03-18T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=17605"},"modified":"2017-03-17T07:01:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T11:01:22","slug":"the-12-greatest-giant-monster-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=17605","title":{"rendered":"The 12 Greatest Giant Monster Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2017\/z031817giantmosters_12greatest.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Owen Gleiberman and <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\">Variety<\/a>\u00a0turn their sights to their choices for the <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/gallery\/best-giant-monster-movies\/#!1\/kong-skull-island-7\/\">12 Greatest Giant Monster Movies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their list contains excellent choices. \u00a0My top three today would be&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>King Kong<\/em> (the original Kong)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>THEM!<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Amazing\u00a0Colossal Man<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My most controversial pick would be <em>The Amazing Colossal Man<\/em>. \u00a0The argument could be made for several other (better?) movies but TACM has always been a favorite since I was a kid. \u00a0It&#8217;s hard to beat the nostalgia factor.<\/p>\n<p>I was also glad to see <em>Mysterious Island<\/em> made the list. \u00a0It&#8217;s not normally a movie listed for horror, but it did have some giant monsters so I won&#8217;t nit pick. \u00a0Plus <em>Mysterious Island<\/em> is a fun movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owen Gleiberman and Variety\u00a0turn their sights to their choices for the 12 Greatest Giant Monster Movies. Their list contains excellent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17606,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17605\/revisions\/17606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}