{"id":2034,"date":"2017-02-22T17:53:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T17:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2017-02-22T17:53:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T17:53:50","slug":"my-first-trip-to-the-imperial-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2017\/02\/22\/my-first-trip-to-the-imperial-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Trip to the Imperial Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University is a time of firsts. Clich\u00e9d as it may sound, it is true of a great many things. Such novel experiences are not confined to the start of a degree; case in point: last week was my first trip to the student-run <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperialcinema.co.uk\/\">Imperial Cinema<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Quite why it has taken me nearly four years to do so, I am unsure &#8211; the cinema, hosted in the Imperial College Union building, boats a superb 8m-wide screen, bolstered with surround sound Dolby audio and plays host to the best films, be that big blockbuster or niche indie, trickling out of cinemas. All this, for a very affordable \u00a34 (for non-members).<\/p>\n<p>It was another gentle reminder of the nature of university life: that new adventures are lurking around every proverbial corner.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2035\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2035\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2035\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/files\/2017\/02\/DSC_01431-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My first Imperial Cinema ticket &#8211; a souvenir!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University is a time of firsts. Clich\u00e9d as it may sound, it is true of a great many things. Such novel experiences are not confined to the start of a degree; case in point: last week was my first trip to the student-run Imperial Cinema. Quite why it has taken me nearly four years to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1027,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,95710,179710],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imperial","category-leisure","category-life-in-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}