{"id":2189,"date":"2018-11-19T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2018-11-19T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T15:59:00","slug":"random-movie-monday-a-tale-of-two-cities-the-circuit-city-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2018\/11\/19\/random-movie-monday-a-tale-of-two-cities-the-circuit-city-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Movie Monday &#8212; A Tale of Two Cities: The Circuit City Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis week\u2019s random movie seems appropriate for the week of Black Friday: A tale of Two Cities: The Circuit City Story (DVD 16523). Here\u2019s our summary:<\/p>\n<p><em>In early 2009, more than 34,000 American workers lost their jobs and one of retail&#8217;s greatest stories of entrepreneurship abruptly came to an end. After 60 years in business and a presence in every major U.S. city, Circuit City seemed to just disappear. How and why did it happen?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now that I think about it, Circuit City did kind of just\u2026disappear. Here&#8217;s to the changing economy I guess?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Tale of Two Cities:  The Circuit City Story - trailer\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fpj7Cf0wBOc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s random movie seems appropriate for the week of Black Friday: A tale of Two Cities: The Circuit City Story (DVD 16523). Here\u2019s our summary: In early 2009, more than 34,000 American workers lost their jobs and one of retail&#8217;s greatest stories of entrepreneurship abruptly came to an end. After 60 years in business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-at-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}