{"id":1275,"date":"2008-01-30T16:20:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T16:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2008-01-30T16:20:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T16:20:21","slug":"the_latest_thx_trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/30\/the_latest_thx_trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest THX Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in my days of working at the multiplex, Lucasfilm&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/THX\">THX sound-system standard<\/a> was still something of a novelty, at least in these parts, and to a bunch of teenaged and early-20s ushers, it was a Very Big Deal indeed. We were proud of the fact that our theater &#8212; Cinemark&#8217;s Sandy Movies 7, later called Movies 9 &#8212; was the first in the state to earn that coveted certification. I remember many debates about which of THX&#8217;s iconic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thx.com\/cinema\/trailers.html\">trailers<\/a> was coolest &#8212; I&#8217;ve always preferred the basic &#8220;Broadway&#8221; one, although the recent &#8220;Moo-Can&#8221; trailer amuses me &#8212; but I think this one probably has them all beat:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/88pZPhUl_AU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of a creepy little animal, actually&#8230; what the hell is it? Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in my days of working at the multiplex, Lucasfilm&#8217;s THX sound-system standard was still something of a novelty, at least in these parts, and to a bunch of teenaged and early-20s ushers, it was a Very Big Deal indeed. We were proud of the fact that our theater &#8212; Cinemark&#8217;s Sandy Movies 7, later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}