{"id":2196,"date":"2024-12-02T14:46:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2025-01-29T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T17:22:10","slug":"movie-theaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2196","title":{"rendered":"Movie Theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read the article below on casual movie theater attendance. It is apparently a thing of the past. I&#8217;d like to offer an opinion on this. <\/p>\n<p><strong>HOW ABOUT PUTTING BACK THE DANG MARQUEES!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have a new theater in our neighborhood. I suspect it isn&#8217;t doing well, and part of the reason, I am sure, is that I have no idea what&#8217;s playing there. Movie theaters mostly removed their marquees a number of years ago. They required manpower to change the sign and since everyone has  smartphone (I don&#8217;t) then why bother? Well, because no one is going to look it up. That&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p> It seems so simple, but I struggle to understand why they have not thought of it. Many times in the past I decided to see a movie because I noticed it was showing at my local theater. I might still be out shopping and say &#8220;Hey, let&#8217;s go see that film.&#8221; Modern business leaders are stupid. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/casual-moviegoer-thing-past-thats-110048373.html\">The casual moviegoer is a thing of the past. That&#8217;s a big problem for Hollywood<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read the article below on casual movie theater attendance. It is apparently a thing of the past. I&#8217;d like to offer an opinion on this. HOW ABOUT PUTTING BACK THE DANG MARQUEES!!!! We have a new theater in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2196\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-society"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}