{"id":5856,"date":"2024-05-14T12:08:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T16:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/?p=5856"},"modified":"2024-05-14T12:08:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T16:08:52","slug":"landmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2024\/05\/14\/landmark\/","title":{"rendered":"landmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I often make fun of the people of Newton for getting all riled up about really stupid things (a few years ago, Tshirts that said &#8220;I went to so-and-so&#8217;s bar mitzvah&#8221; were banned because other kids would feel bad.)\u00a0 But&#8230;the West Newton Cinema property is an icon, and it&#8217;s been sold.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been around since 1938, and operated independently since 1978.\u00a0 Which is saying something, given the abundance of huge multiplexes.\u00a0 However, the new owner stated that if a non-profit formed and raised enough money,\u00a0 he will sell it back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/05\/PXL_20240514_144652880-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5857\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/05\/PXL_20240514_144652880-2-377x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/05\/PXL_20240514_144652880-2-377x500.jpg 377w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/05\/PXL_20240514_144652880-2-771x1024.jpg 771w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/05\/PXL_20240514_144652880-2-151x200.jpg 151w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/05\/PXL_20240514_144652880-2-768x1020.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/05\/PXL_20240514_144652880-2-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/05\/PXL_20240514_144652880-2-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/05\/PXL_20240514_144652880-2-scaled.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I often make fun of the people of Newton for getting all riled up about really stupid things (a few years ago, Tshirts that said &#8220;I went to so-and-so&#8217;s bar mitzvah&#8221; were banned because other kids would feel bad.)\u00a0 But&#8230;the West Newton Cinema property is an icon, and it&#8217;s been sold.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been around since &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2024\/05\/14\/landmark\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">landmark<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5858,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions\/5858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}