{"id":1254,"date":"2011-02-24T12:16:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T17:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2011-02-25T14:39:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T19:39:21","slug":"movienight-thursday-february-24th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"Casablanca still reigns supreme."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1263\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?attachment_id=1263\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1263\" title=\"A kiss is just a kiss...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/casablanca.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/casablanca.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/casablanca-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the late (same day!) announcement of this week&#8217;s feature, a small group of MovieNighters showed up to be once more enthralled by <em>Casablanca<\/em>. Just a few days before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences convene in their annual, self-congratulatory celebration of cinematic mediocrity [sorry&#8230; but it&#8217;s usually true], it bears remembering that <em>Casablanca<\/em> won Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Writing at the 1944 awards. Ah&#8230; the good old days. Actually, one of our guests confessed that she had never seen <em>Casablanca<\/em> before&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 yes, there are still some out there!\u00c2\u00a0 As for the rest of us, many experiencing a viewing numbering in the region of two figures, <em>Casablanca<\/em> remains a fresh and surprising combination of ingredients, blended together to make a delicious concoction. Sort of like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?page_id=1140\" target=\"_self\">Treasure Trail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the USPS will deliver next week&#8217;s feature really, really soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb  <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0034583\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-348\" title=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"imdb\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the late (same day!) announcement of this week&#8217;s feature, a small group of MovieNighters showed up to be once more enthralled by Casablanca. Just a few days before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences convene in their annual, self-congratulatory celebration of cinematic mediocrity [sorry&#8230; but it&#8217;s usually true], it bears remembering that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Casablanca still reigns supreme.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}