{"id":175,"date":"2009-04-27T10:26:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T10:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2009-04-27T10:26:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T10:26:19","slug":"james-edwards-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/04\/27\/james-edwards-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"James Edwards II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This weekend marked the twelve year anniversary of one of the more notable passing&#8217;s in Orange County cinema history, with the death of Edwards Theatres founder, James Edwards II. On 4\/26\/97,\u00a0the ninety year old Edwards was found floating in Newport Bay, having suffered a fatal heart attack.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/edwardsgravemarker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-174\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Edwards Grave Marker\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/edwardsgravemarker-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/edwardsgravemarker-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/edwardsgravemarker-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/edwardsgravemarker.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>In the wake of Mr. Edwards&#8217; death, the Orange County cinema landscape underwent a drastic transition. Edwards&#8217; once highly profitable, family owned, chain slipped in to bankruptcy, under the leadership of\u00a0his children; this financial\u00a0failure ultimately forcing the closure of numerous county theatres and resulting in the chain being absorbed by, cinema conglomerate, Regal Entertainment Group.\u00a0After thirty two years of\u00a0Orange County&#8217;s\u00a0cinemas\u00a0being defined by\u00a0Edwards&#8217; independent, &#8220;giant killer&#8221;, approach, the county fell in line with the\u00a0national chains James Edwards had\u00a0fought off\u00a0throughout his career.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend marked the twelve year anniversary of one of the more notable passing&#8217;s in Orange County cinema history, with the death of Edwards Theatres founder, James Edwards II. On 4\/26\/97,\u00a0the ninety year old Edwards was found floating in Newport Bay, having suffered a fatal heart attack. \u00a0 . In the wake of Mr. Edwards&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}