{"id":229,"date":"2019-04-25T23:59:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T04:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2019-04-29T07:57:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T12:57:22","slug":"five-easy-pieces-1970-april-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/25\/five-easy-pieces-1970-april-25th\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Easy Pieces. Hold the chicken!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/fiveeasy2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-241\"\/><figcaption>Strange carfellows<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was great to revisit this classic tonight! Bob Rafelson&#8217;s <em>Five Easy Pieces<\/em> packs so much color and depth into a rather short 98 minute package. We had a great turnout too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On another note, I&#8217;m going to rethink the popcorn policy here. Every Friday morning, I throw so much uneaten popcorn out. As cute as it is for me to deliver popcorn to each sofa, it appears that not everyone wants it. I think I&#8217;ll just set it out on the side bar, and folks can help themselves. I know&#8230; first world problems!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking of which, tonight&#8217;s animated short was the disturbingly poignant story of an immigrant&#8217;s futile attempt to make a new life in a first world country: <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Paper or Plastic (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/channels\/staffpicks\/319979381\" target=\"_blank\">Paper or Plastic<\/a><\/em>, directed by Nata Metlukh<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0065724\/?ref_=ttcrv_crv_tt\" 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><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was great to revisit this classic tonight! Bob Rafelson&#8217;s Five Easy Pieces packs so much color and depth into a rather short 98 minute package. We had a great turnout too. On another note, I&#8217;m going to rethink the popcorn policy here. Every Friday morning, I throw so much uneaten popcorn out. As cute &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/25\/five-easy-pieces-1970-april-25th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Five Easy Pieces. Hold the chicken!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","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\/229","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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}