{"id":766,"date":"2003-03-18T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-19T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=766"},"modified":"2017-12-02T12:38:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T16:38:17","slug":"john-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"John Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2003\/\/z031803assault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I learned about another classic that <b>CARPENTER<\/b> had created even earlier in his career. That was the cult classic <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00008974J\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Assault on Precinct 13.&#8221;<\/a><\/b> In the following years <b>CARPENTER<\/b> went on to direct<b> &#8220;Escape From New York,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0783227507\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;The Thing,&#8221;<\/a><\/b> <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005A3KU\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Big Trouble in Little China&#8221;<\/a><\/b> and even <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0767812166\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Starman.&#8221; <\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>After that his movies began to be hit or miss and mostly miss.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still when I go back and watch one of <b>JOHN CARPENTER<\/b>&#8216;s early films, like <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00008974J\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Assault on Precinct 13,&#8221;<\/a><\/b> it&#8217;s obvious why he was one of my favorites!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned about another classic that CARPENTER had created even earlier in his career. That was the cult classic &#8220;Assault<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19316,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/19316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}