{"id":1578,"date":"2006-05-26T00:19:20","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T00:19:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T23:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:00:40","slug":"its-raining-frogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=1578","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s raining frogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the film Magnolia it rains frogs at the end of the movie. I had to search the Internet and find out why &#8211; here is an explanation http:\/\/www.usingenglish.com\/forum\/ask-teacher\/6315-idiom-raining-frogs.html.<\/p>\n<p>Elins opinion was that this was mentioned in the bible, so I had to do a new search. So from this site &#8220;The secrets of Magnolia&#8221; http:\/\/kempa.com\/articles\/mag82\/ I found <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Exodus 8:2 in the bible reads: &#8220;And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.&#8221; Supposedly there are over 100 occurances of the numbers 8 and 2 within the movie, foreshadowing the coming &#8216;storm&#8217;.  The &#8216;100 references figure comes from the following interview excerpt:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Norwegian:<\/p>\n<p>Fra Andre Mosebok 8.2:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Da sa Herren til Moses: \u00abG\u00e5 til farao og si til ham: S\u00e5 sier Herren: La mitt folk fare, s\u00e5 de kan tjene meg.  2 Nekter du \u00e5 la dem fare, vil jeg plage hele landet med frosk. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fant dette p\u00e5 http:\/\/www.bibelen.no, jaggu var de glade i frosk i Andre Mosebok gitt!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the film Magnolia it rains frogs at the end of the movie. I had to search the Internet and find out why &#8211; here is an explanation http:\/\/www.usingenglish.com\/forum\/ask-teacher\/6315-idiom-raining-frogs.html. Elins opinion was that this was mentioned in the bible, so I had to do a new search. So from this site &#8220;The secrets of Magnolia&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16008,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/16008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}