{"id":917,"date":"2023-11-09T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=917"},"modified":"2023-11-19T18:10:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T23:10:54","slug":"the-passenger-thursday-november-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/09\/the-passenger-thursday-november-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"The Passenger. What a ride!"},"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\/2023\/11\/pass3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-923\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For our second feature in this new season, I had a complication on Wednesday, so switched to Thursday, November 8th, in the email. November 8th was actually a Wednesday, so some confusion ensued. It also turned out that this sudden change of day conflicted with the plans of my loyal regulars&#8230; I almost cancelled, but you know what? The show must go on, and so it did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tonight turned out to be a blast, and attendance greatly exceeded my expectations. And what a thrill it was to see this movie again on the big screen. I&#8217;m pretty sure I figured out how the famous last shot was done!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to announce next week&#8217;s feature a bit earlier though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our short tonight was a beautiful bit of animation: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/861813479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Flora<\/a><\/em> by Ian Frederick.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073580\/?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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our second feature in this new season, I had a complication on Wednesday, so switched to Thursday, November 8th, in the email. November 8th was actually a Wednesday, so some confusion ensued. It also turned out that this sudden change of day conflicted with the plans of my loyal regulars&#8230; I almost cancelled, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/09\/the-passenger-thursday-november-8th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Passenger. What a ride!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","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\/917","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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}