{"id":22,"date":"2015-01-01T20:49:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2022-04-04T21:12:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T21:12:36","slug":"the-projectionist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?page_id=22","title":{"rendered":"The Projectionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a logical explanation for my XML Prague paper about the <em>Film Markup Language<\/em>: I&#8217;ve been running shows at cinemas for\u00a036\u00a0years. Before I ever heard of markup languages, I worked as a projectionist in addition to studying physics and astronomy. It was a good way to put food on the table and great fun, and I fell in love with cinema technology, especially 70mm projection and Dolby sound.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1990 and 2016, I ran every single show at the <em>Draken<\/em> theatre for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giff.se\/\">G\u00f6teborg Film Festival<\/a>, surely a record of some kind. Today, however, my focus is on the\u00a0<em>Odeon<\/em>, a cinema in my garage built from recycled parts. The\u00a0<em>Odeon<\/em> is primarily a showcase of my fascination for Dolby sound processors, but it is also the last fully functioning 70mm theatre in Western Sweden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a logical explanation for my XML Prague paper about the Film Markup Language: I&#8217;ve been running shows at cinemas for\u00a036\u00a0years. Before I ever heard of markup languages, I worked as a projectionist in addition to studying physics and astronomy. It was a good way to put food on the table and great fun, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}