{"id":129,"date":"2011-03-27T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2011\/03\/27\/stand-by-me-25-years-later\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:04","slug":"stand-by-me-25-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2011\/03\/27\/stand-by-me-25-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand By Me – 25 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"StandByMe\"Stand By Me<\/a> was an adaptation of one<\/a> of Stephen King’s short stories and it became a monster hit in our household many years ago. At some point, I taped it off the television and for about two years, it seemed that every time I looked, one of the kids was watching it. I’m not sure what it was that fascinated them so much, but they were hooked.<\/p>\n

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, but this week, one of the child stars, Wil Wheaton<\/a>, wrote a moving article on his blog, called “Though I hadn’t seen him in 20 years, I knew I’d miss him forever<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

It tells a story (Will is a writer himself now, just as his character in Stand By Me became) about joining the other cast members and director (Rob Reiner<\/a>) from the movie for the first time since the movie was released. They were taping interviews for a just-released Blue Ray special edition<\/a>. Notably absent from the reunion was River Phoenix<\/a>, who died of a drug overdose a few years after the movie appeared and who had been a friend of Wil’s.<\/p>\n

Even if you haven’t seen the movie (which I recommend you consider renting), take a look at Wil’s post<\/a>. It’s a wonderful, honest view of what it’s like to watch your life wind by and the mystery of how we end up where we are.<\/p>\n

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Stand By Me was an adaptation of one of Stephen King’s short stories and it became a monster hit in our household many years ago. At some point, I taped it off the television and for about two years, it seemed that every time I looked, one of the kids was watching it. I’m not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":880,"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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-25","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/StandByMe.jpg?fit=203%2C298&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}