{"id":1702,"date":"2026-03-26T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:34:39","slug":"escape-from-new-york-thursday-march-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/26\/escape-from-new-york-thursday-march-26th\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape from New York. Escapism in New York."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/escape3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1708\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sure. Kinda cheesy in parts, and Kurt Russell&#8217;s lines rather too breathily pronounced, but what a blast to watch this one again tonight! A pretty-much full house was enthralled by John Carpenter&#8217;s (dare I say?) masterpiece. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I first screened this at MovieNight on 16th St. in the spring of 2002. I guess the time will be 2050? Not likely, but never say never!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082340\/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure. Kinda cheesy in parts, and Kurt Russell&#8217;s lines rather too breathily pronounced, but what a blast to watch this one again tonight! A pretty-much full house was enthralled by John Carpenter&#8217;s (dare I say?) masterpiece. I first screened this at MovieNight on 16th St. in the spring of 2002. I guess the time will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/26\/escape-from-new-york-thursday-march-26th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Escape from New York. Escapism in New York.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-newscreen-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}