{"id":13606,"date":"2021-02-22T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13606"},"modified":"2021-02-22T12:59:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T12:59:14","slug":"blogathon-22-21-the-flicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13606","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 22\/21: The flicks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Flicks-1024x481.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Flicks-1024x481.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Flicks-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Flicks-768x360.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Flicks-1536x721.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Flicks-2048x961.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Flicks-150x70.jpg 150w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Flicks-250x117.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>An evening at the flicks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I miss the cinema. The super large wall-to-wall, floor-to ceiling screen, the vibratingly powerful surround sound Dolby audio, the super comfortable reclining seats, the hideously overpriced drinks and snacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cinema, as an experience, has come a long way since the Saturday morning showing at the Blaenavon Coliseum. Ah, how the memories of my youth come flooding back&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The smoke-laden atmosphere, the uncomfortable swing-up seats, the sticky carpet, the celluloid that kept breaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Fleapit.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13612\"\/><figcaption>Fleapit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, despite all this reminiscing the truth is that no matter how much I miss the flicks now, there would probably be nothing worth watching on at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As mentioned recently, the elder child is having us watch <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13508\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=13508\" target=\"_blank\">every Marvel film in chronological story order<\/a>. The most recent film we have watched is Captain America: The Winter Soldier. I haven&#8217;t seen this one before. It&#8217;s a cracking film heavily laden with all of the special effects, explosions, fight scenes, flight scenes, car chases, gunfights, knife fights&#8230; This is a film I would have liked to have seen on a very big screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss the cinema. The super large wall-to-wall, floor-to ceiling screen, the vibratingly powerful surround sound Dolby audio, the super comfortable reclining seats, the hideously<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}