{"id":50,"date":"2010-03-24T10:44:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T10:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/2010\/03\/24\/movies_peter_watched_as_a_kid\/"},"modified":"2018-01-05T02:20:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T02:20:26","slug":"movies_peter_watched_as_a_kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/2010\/03\/24\/movies_peter_watched_as_a_kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies Peter watched as a kid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another of the files rescued from Peter’s hard drive was a letter containing stories and anecdotes about Peter’s father and about Peter’s childhood. A lot of them were pretty bitter and unpleasant, and I won’t post those; and most of them aren’t directly about Peter anyway. But here’s one bit that I thought was interesting enough to post, about how Peter would spend his 25¢ weekly allowance as a kid:<\/p>\n

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each Saturday, after I finished my chores, I was allowed to go to the magic lantern (movie theater). The admission was 15¢, and popcorn was 10¢! For this munificent sum, what I got was 3 feature movies: a) sometimes war movies, with Japanese generals playing Go under naked light bulbs in tents!; b) sometimes science fiction; c) sometimes adventure (Kim, or King Solomon’s Mines…); d) sometimes westerns (I remember Hopalong Cassidy and the Cisco Kid…); and always about 12 cartoons (pretty dumb, but I liked them anyway); 1 or 2 “shorts”; a newsreel; and a Superman serial (I “dug” “Superman vs. the Mole Men”)….<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It never occurred to me before that it’s possible that I got my interest in movies from Peter; even though we never had much money, it was always understood that we would go see movies now and then. I think that, at least for a while, the allowances we received were specifically intended to be enough to see a movie each week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another of the files rescued from Peter’s hard drive was a letter containing stories and anecdotes about Peter’s father and about Peter’s childhood. A lot of them were pretty bitter and unpleasant, and I won’t post those; and most of them aren’t directly about Peter anyway. But here’s one bit that I thought was interesting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peters-interests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/peter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}