{"id":32,"date":"2015-12-15T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T14:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2015-12-15T14:29:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T14:29:35","slug":"spoiler-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1977, movies didn\u2019t open in thousands of screens. They\u2019d play in big cities, and then, eventually they\u2019d get to the smaller ones. I lived near Canton, IL, which had two movie theaters, and older one with a balcony and everything, and a newer, smaller one across the town square that was more like a box with seats in it. We had to wait on movies to come there, so we usually got things a month or two after it was released and if we DID get a new movie the first week, it was usually a stinker that bigger theaters didn\u2019t want.<\/p>\n

So, when Star Wars came out, we didn\u2019t get it until late July.<\/p>\n

By then, I had read the comic adaptation and the novelization.<\/p>\n

I had had the movie spoiled. And I didn\u2019t care. I knew the story, I knew the twists, but it was so well made and I was so excited that I was there for the experience and the spectacle.<\/p>\n

We are now so crazed about avoiding spoilers that people asking that the movie not be spoiled takes us a third of the Facestab page.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll see the movie in a couple of weeks when the theaters aren\u2019t full. I am sure someone will spoil things. I won\u2019t care. The point of the journey is not the arrival.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1977, movies didn\u2019t open in thousands of screens. They\u2019d play in big cities, and then, eventually they\u2019d get to the smaller ones. I lived near Canton, IL, which had two movie theaters, and older one with a balcony and everything, and a newer, smaller one across the town square that was more like a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.solitairerose.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}