{"id":136,"date":"2006-11-26T17:03:40","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T23:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/11\/26\/of-all-the-gin-joints-in-all-the-towns-in-all-the-world\/"},"modified":"2006-11-26T19:45:29","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T01:45:29","slug":"of-all-the-gin-joints-in-all-the-towns-in-all-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Of All The Gin Joints In All The Towns In All The World&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With perfect timing, Red notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/sheilaomalley.com\/\">today is the 64th anniversary of the release of <em>Casablanca<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epiagranollers.net\/pract\/casablanca.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a movie I&#8217;ve seen about forty times, and for good reason.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Casablanca premiered at the Hollywood Theatre in New York City. It was not expected to be a long-lasting mythical evocation of the quintessential American ideals we all aspire to, from generation to generation. It was just supposed to be another one of the pro-war propaganda movies the studios were churning out at that time. It went on to win the Academy Award the next year &#8211; but again, lots of films win Academy Awards and don&#8217;t go on to achieve legendary status.<\/p>\n<p>The legend around the film began growing in the late 50s, a couple of years after Bogart&#8217;s death. The stories about the Casablanca showings at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge Massachusetts are now famous &#8230; and make me wish for a time machine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, me too, Red.  Me too.<\/p>\n<p>I think I need to watch it tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With perfect timing, Red notes that today is the 64th anniversary of the release of Casablanca. It&#8217;s a movie I&#8217;ve seen about forty times, and for good reason. Casablanca premiered at the Hollywood Theatre in New York City. It was not expected to be a long-lasting mythical evocation of the quintessential American ideals we all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}