{"id":305,"date":"2004-09-16T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/16\/dinner-and-a-movie\/"},"modified":"2004-09-16T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-17T01:58:00","slug":"dinner-and-a-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/16\/dinner-and-a-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner and a Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are three movie theaters within a 15 minute drive (or so) of my house. Two in Troy, one in Piqua. The movie prices are very reasonable. Piqua’s theater<\/a>, which is in the mall, is $3.50 for matinee and $5.50 for evening. (Everything before 6:00pm is matinee.) Troy’s theaters<\/a>, both owned by the same company, used to both be $4 for matinee and $6 for evening – but one of the two has become a $1 theater. (50 cents on Tuesdays – woohoo!) Considering that the Hollywood Video<\/a> in Troy has returned its rental prices back up from 99 cents (a limited special that went on for two years) I might go to the Mayflower to see second run releases instead of renting. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So I’ve gone from 3 first-run theaters to 2, and I was shocked to discover that one of those theaters was showing Hero<\/a><\/i>. (You may recall<\/a> I loved the movie when I saw it Labor Day weekend.) I couldn’t pass up the chance to show the movie off to the parental units, so I invited them out tonight for dinner and a movie. We went to the 5pm showing and then I took them out for dinner at the Bamboo Grill, a nice Chinese restaurant in downtown Troy. The movie was, once again, stunning and even the folks were impressed. A bit confused, maybe, but they agreed with me that the movie was visually impressive. The meal was wonderful. We had crab rangoon then shared chicken w\/ garlic sauce, General Tso’s (one of the few restaurants in the area that don’t use breaded\/battered chicken for this), and Kung Pao chicken. Yeah, so we like chicken… And best of all, I’ve got about 4 more meals out of the leftovers.<\/p>\n

The entire evening cost under $50, which is pretty good entertainment and lots of bonus daughter points (sorry Amy!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are three movie theaters within a 15 minute drive (or so) of my house. Two in Troy, one in Piqua. The movie prices are very reasonable. Piqua’s theater, which is in the mall, is $3.50 for matinee and $5.50 for evening. (Everything before 6:00pm is matinee.) Troy’s theaters, both owned by the same company, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}