{"id":14106,"date":"2004-06-22T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/22\/the-terminal\/"},"modified":"2004-06-22T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-22T14:46:00","slug":"the-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/22\/the-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you have probably seen trailers for the upcoming Tom Hanks movie <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0362227\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Terminal<\/i><\/a>, which is about a traveler stuck in an airport terminal because of bureaucracy over his documents.  What you may not know is that this is based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/travel\/airline\/airport.htm\" target=\"_blank\">true story<\/a> of Merhan Karimi Nasseri, and it&rsquo;s a fairly involved (and somewhat sad) one at that.  A French movie based on his story (entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0108359\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Tomb\u00e9s du ciel<\/i> or <i>Lost In Transit<\/i><\/a>) was also made in 1994.  Still, I&rsquo;d like to see <i>The Terminal<\/i>, as I&rsquo;m thinking a Spielberg-Hanks collaboration should be pretty good&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-108791702779684197?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you have probably seen trailers for the upcoming Tom Hanks movie The Terminal, which is about a traveler stuck in an airport terminal because of bureaucracy over his documents. What you may not know is that this is based on the true story of Merhan Karimi Nasseri, and it&rsquo;s a fairly involved (and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/22\/the-terminal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Terminal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}