{"id":16995,"date":"2014-07-17T02:22:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T09:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16995"},"modified":"2014-07-17T02:22:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T09:22:14","slug":"summer-flicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/summer-flicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Flicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/movwk.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"685\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Left to right: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; Transformers: Age of Extinction; \u00a0X-Men: Days of Future Past<\/p>\n<p>Last weeks&#8217;s top grossing box office hit was the new release, &#8220;Dawn of the Planet of the Apes&#8221;. \u00a0It&#8217;s the story of a growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar, and threatened by a band of human survivors. Trailing behind in the #2 spot was &#8220;Transformers: Age of Extinction&#8221; about a mechanic and his daughter who make a discovery that brings down Autobots and Decepticons. This is the summer of sci-fi thrillers and comic book heroes ranging from Godzilla to Spiderman, X-Men and Captain America. \u00a0For those who like films that dig beneath the surface, there are several<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/july-film.html\"> film festivals alternatives in California<\/a>! They&#8217;re \u00a0not this nation&#8217;s top-sellers, but they offer thought-provoking alternatives&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SANTA BARBARA: The Wave Film Festival, July 16-20, 2014, 11 brand new French films<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: Japanese Film Festival July 19-27, 2014<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO: Japanese Film Festival, July\u00a018-20, 2014<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, July 24 &#8211; August 11, 2014<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left to right: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; Transformers: Age of Extinction; \u00a0X-Men: Days of Future Past Last weeks&#8217;s top grossing box office hit was the new release, &#8220;Dawn of the Planet of the Apes&#8221;. \u00a0It&#8217;s the story of a growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar, and threatened by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16995"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}