{"id":1898,"date":"2008-12-28T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2008-12-28T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T23:52:00","slug":"wizard-of-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1898","title":{"rendered":"Wizard of Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bvtheatre.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Ballantyne Village Theater<\/a> here in Charlotte is playing Wizard of Oz this week as part of their ongoing retro series.  Obviously, we had to go see it.<\/p>\n<p><b>The down sides:<\/b><br \/>\nThe print is old and scratched.<br \/>\nThe focus faded in and out, not because of the projectionist, but because of a lackluster transfer.<br \/>\nThe print is cropped at the sides, revealing the whole picture only through <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pan_and_scan\" target=\"blank\">pan and scan.<\/a><br \/>\nIt looks a lot like the trailer embedded below in terms of quality.<\/p>\n<p><b>The up sides:<\/b><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s only $5 a ticket if you go to the 5:20 show.<br \/>\n<i>It&#8217;s the freakin&#8217; WIZARD OF OZ on the BIG SCREEN.<\/i><br \/>\nI&#8217;m going with a nine-year-old, not a film appreciation class, so there&#8217;s a limit to how much I should really complain.<\/p>\n<p>We talked about our favorite characters in the car on the way home.  Mr. Tvini likes the Cowardly Lion because he likes <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bert_Lahr\" target=\"blank\">Bert Lahr<\/a>.  I like the Scarecrow because I like the way he moves and dances (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ray_Bolger\" target=\"blank\">Ray Bolger<\/a> is awesome).  Em likes Dorothy &#8220;because she&#8217;s a really good singer.&#8221;  My kid&#8217;s got good taste.<\/p>\n<p>Em had a blast and wants to go again.  And so we will.  And we will share popcorn and bottled water and lo, it will be good.<\/p>\n<p><lj-embed id=\"26\"\/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballantyne Village Theater here in Charlotte is playing Wizard of Oz this week as part of their ongoing retro series. Obviously, we had to go see it. The down sides: The print is old and scratched. The focus faded in and out, not because of the projectionist, but because of a lackluster transfer. The print [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}