{"id":1331,"date":"2019-05-25T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:12:30","slug":"alien-the-movie-came-out-40-years-ago-today-heres-the-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Alien&#8221; &#8211; the movie &#8211; came out 40 years ago today &#8211; here&#8217;s the trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad37e7ffb200d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alien 79 trailer\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad37e7ffb200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad37e7ffb200d-200wi\" style=\"width: 160px;\" title=\"Alien 79 trailer\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have vivid memories of seeing this movie when I was teaching in the Cayman Islands. The discussions in the teacher&#39;s lounge for a couple of days <strong>before<\/strong> we went was all about the &quot;thing popping out of his chest&quot;.&#0160; So we went to see what it was all about. The movie was great -&#0160; and scary from minute one til 116. It was 117 minutes long. <\/p>\n<p>the original trailer &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LjLamj-b0I8\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have vivid memories of seeing this movie when I was teaching in the Cayman Islands. The discussions in the teacher&#39;s lounge for a couple of days before we went was all about the &quot;thing popping out of his chest&quot;.&#0160; So we went to see what it was all about. The movie was great -&#0160; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4938,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/4938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}