{"id":15448,"date":"2012-07-20T21:59:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T03:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=15448"},"modified":"2016-05-12T08:51:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T14:51:11","slug":"at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=15448","title":{"rendered":"At Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0New (Hiroshima) Moon<\/p>\n<p>Let the kids and the grandkids decompress from grandpop&#8217;s visit. \u00a0We wore ourselves out riding the train, eating pizza, driving a long ways.<\/p>\n<p>I took the night off and saw a movie. \u00a0Dark Knight Rises. \u00a0Weird, I know. \u00a0The 6:05 time though. \u00a0Not the late one.<\/p>\n<p>The Harkins Theaters are a multi-plex (what&#8217;s the plex mean?) not far from the hotel. \u00a0I settled into a seat, the theatre was not crowded. \u00a0As the previews began to roll, I looked around, imagining a similar scene, only the night before, only a suburb away. \u00a0Gas rolling in. \u00a0A masked gunman shooting.<\/p>\n<p>As the movie started, a strange thing happened. \u00a0A man in a dark shirt walked in, looked around, went to the back of the theatre, pressed the exit door open, light spilled in from the outside. \u00a0He pulled it shut, turned around and walked out. \u00a0Gave me a moment.<\/p>\n<p>After the movie, around 9:00 pm, this is a long one, I went over to a yogurt shop and had a dish of cookies and cream, sitting outside in a cool Colorado night. \u00a0No bugs.<\/p>\n<p>There are odd reverberations in the movie given the Aurora event. \u00a0In it a man with a mask-like device over his face locks people in a room and shoots at them with an automatic weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0New (Hiroshima) Moon Let the kids and the grandkids decompress from grandpop&#8217;s visit. \u00a0We wore ourselves out riding the train, eating pizza, driving a long ways. I took the night off and saw a movie. \u00a0Dark Knight Rises. \u00a0Weird, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=15448\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">At Night<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39992,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15448\/revisions\/39992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}