{"id":81,"date":"2009-02-19T16:10:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T16:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2009-03-03T03:02:03","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T03:02:03","slug":"the-big-newport-turns-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/02\/19\/the-big-newport-turns-40\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Newport Turns 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>With surprisingly little fanfare, <a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/big-newport\/#more-142\" target=\"_blank\">Edwards Big Newport <\/a>turned forty this month. Opened on 2\/11\/69, as Edwards Newport Cinema, the theatre has\u00a0withstood the multiplex era, megaplex era,\u00a0millennium\u00a0industry collapse, Edwards&#8217; bankruptcy, and\u00a0some four decades of economic fluctuation. While the complex has gone through three separate expansions and\u00a0a host of upgrades\/remodels, the original, &#8220;Big Newport&#8221; auditorium, has\u00a0survived unscathed; still standing as Orange County&#8217;s movie going showpiece.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bignewportopenrev1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-106\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Big Newport Grand Opening\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bignewportopenrev1-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bignewportopenrev1-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bignewportopenrev1-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bignewportopenrev1.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Considering how many county cinemas have come and gone or simply faded from relevance, since 1969,\u00a0the Big Newport&#8217;s\u00a0fortieth anniversary is a commendable milestone. \u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 With surprisingly little fanfare, Edwards Big Newport turned forty this month. Opened on 2\/11\/69, as Edwards Newport Cinema, the theatre has\u00a0withstood the multiplex era, megaplex era,\u00a0millennium\u00a0industry collapse, Edwards&#8217; bankruptcy, and\u00a0some four decades of economic fluctuation. While the complex has gone through three separate expansions and\u00a0a host of upgrades\/remodels, the original, &#8220;Big Newport&#8221; auditorium, has\u00a0survived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}