{"id":3995,"date":"2019-10-08T10:13:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T15:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2019-10-08T10:13:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T15:13:57","slug":"ripcord-films-turns-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/ripcord-films-turns-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripcord Films turns 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just blinked my eyes and my baby was all grown up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe that 18 years ago today my cousin and I ran around a campground with toy guns and made our very first movie together. A lot has happened since then (most notably, the lack of becoming famous). But I still look back fondly on those days. Though filmmaking never became a part of my daily routine, it&#8217;s responsible for a large portion of how I view things creatively. I still write with a cinematic mindset and I even develop scenes as a dungeon master as though my players are experiencing them both onscreen and as the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, as a tribute to the impact that the first Ripcord had on me as an adult, I present it to you all without shame or fear of judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, maybe just a little fear of judgment. Be nice to me. I was a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ripcord (2001)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/365058380?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"676\" height=\"507\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just blinked my eyes and my baby was all grown up. I can&#8217;t believe that 18 years ago today my cousin and I ran around a campground with toy guns and made our very first movie together. A lot has happened since then (most notably, the lack of becoming famous). But I still look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2177,"url":"https:\/\/zepfhyr.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/scary-movie-month-day-6-arachnophobia\/","url_meta":{"origin":3995,"position":0},"title":"Scary Movie Month &#8211; Day 6 &#8211; Arachnophobia","author":"Jared Cash","date":"October 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I hate spiders. 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