{"id":20054,"date":"2018-02-17T10:07:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T09:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20054"},"modified":"2018-02-17T10:07:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T09:07:56","slug":"darkest-hour-premier-at-the-unicorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=20054","title":{"rendered":"Darkest Hour Premier at The Unicorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18021704.jpg\" alt=\"Winston\" \/><br \/>\nThere was a full house at the Unicorn Cinema for the first showing of &#8216;Darkest Hour&#8217; ..  <i>During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.<\/i> (This picture was taken while people were taking their seats during the previews.)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18021703.jpg\" alt=\"Winston\" \/><br \/>\nSome of the audience had dressed in 1940s style clothes. The Regal Evesham staff, who run the cinema, were also dressed in 1940s garb.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18021701.jpg\" alt=\"Winston\" \/><br \/>\nThere were even a group of WWII re-enactors who had come along to watch the film. So there was a great atmosphere at the first showing of what turned out to be a gripping and moving film.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18021702.jpg\" alt=\"Winston\" \/><br \/>\nMy wife and me also dressed up and had our picture taken by the official photographer. The picture may well appear on the Unicorn or Regal website. I am afraid we look more like we had come out to a 1970s disco that an 1940s evening to watch &#8216;Winnie.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>More showings can be booked at <a href=\"https:\/\/theunicorn.ac\/\">theunicorn.ac<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a full house at the Unicorn Cinema for the first showing of &#8216;Darkest Hour&#8217; .. During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds. (This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}