{"id":7868,"date":"2013-02-11T01:06:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T05:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7868"},"modified":"2021-03-21T16:42:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T20:42:56","slug":"are-drive-ins-making-a-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7868","title":{"rendered":"Are Drive-Ins Making a Comeback?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2013\/z021113drive_ins.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" \/><strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2034\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">It&#8217;s no secret that I love drive-in theaters<\/span><\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Most people my age, do&#8230; or did. \u00a0I say did because there aren&#8217;t many left [<strong>drive-ins<\/strong>, not people my age].<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fact that there aren&#8217;t many <strong>drive-ins<\/strong>\u00a0around these days is no surprise. \u00a0The year I was born, <strong>1958, was the peak for drive-in theaters<\/strong> in the <strong>United States<\/strong>. \u00a0Since then, <strong>drive-ins<\/strong> have been on the decline. \u00a0But, believe it or not, a little over 350\u00a0<strong>drive-in theaters<\/strong>\u00a0are still hanging in there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The real surprising news is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywood.com\/news\/movies\/49536731\/drive-ins-go-digital-will-this-revive-a-long-dead-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>some of these remaining drive-in theaters are upgrading to digital technology<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. \u00a0Could this be the start of a comeback?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My guess is no. \u00a0But I&#8217;d love it if I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that I love drive-in theaters. \u00a0Most people my age, do&#8230; or did. \u00a0I say did because there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868","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=7868"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26605,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions\/26605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}