{"id":2473,"date":"2009-06-25T13:53:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T18:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2009-06-25T13:55:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T18:55:46","slug":"the-young-moviegoer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/memories\/the-young-moviegoer\/","title":{"rendered":"The young moviegoer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted just now over <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.commercialappeal.com\/the_memphis_blog\/2009\/06\/first-time-at-the-big-screen.html\">at The Memphis Blog about first moviegoing experiences<\/a>, and I&#8217;ve sat here for roughly three seconds trying to dredge up my own memory of my first time at a movie theater, only to thoroughly confuse myself. I guess I&#8217;m going to have to ask my parents, because I can only narrow it down to four contenders (one of which I&#8217;m not even sure happened): <I>The Abyss<\/i>, <i>The Little Mermaid<\/i>, <i>Driving Miss Daisy<\/i>, and <i>The Wizard<\/i>. All of those flicks came out in 1989 and I guess I could do some research and see in what order, but, well, meh. But I&#8217;m still not convinced it&#8217;s any of those, because surely I saw a movie in a theater before I was eight years old, right? I just can&#8217;t remember going to any movies before then. In fact, there&#8217;s a whole chunk of my childhood I don&#8217;t remember at all. Hmmm.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the important thing \u2014 er, things \u2014 to get out of all of this:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I lost a tooth during <i>The Little Mermaid<\/i>, which I went to see with my cousin Ashley. I think I remember wrapping it up in a bathroom paper towel and bringing it home to cash it in. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I saw <i>Driving Miss Daisy<\/i> with my sister and I&#8217;m fairly sure I was a brat through the whole thing, because boy was that a boring movie for a kid to sit through.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I saw <i>The Abyss<\/i> with my parents, and they made me cover my eyes during the boob shots. I was fascinated that there was a character named Lindsey, which wasn&#8217;t a name I heard a whole lot at the time. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I&#8217;m still not sure I saw <i>The Wizard<\/i> in the theater, because I think maybe Ashley and I had the choice between <i>The Wizard<\/i> and <i>The Little Mermaid<\/i> and I pitched a go-devil fit (as my mother would say) for <i>The Little Mermaid<\/i> so it won out. I should see if Ashley remembers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted just now over at The Memphis Blog about first moviegoing experiences, and I&#8217;ve sat here for roughly three seconds trying to dredge up my own memory of my first time at a movie theater, only to thoroughly confuse myself. I guess I&#8217;m going to have to ask my parents, because I can only narrow it down to four contenders (one of which I&#8217;m not even sure happened): The Abyss, The Little Mermaid, Driving&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,21,245],"tags":[1151,2148,2159,1065],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories","category-movies","category-shameless-self-promotion","tag-film","tag-memories","tag-movies","tag-theater"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-DT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}