{"id":37254,"date":"2022-02-13T11:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=37254"},"modified":"2022-02-13T11:00:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T16:00:34","slug":"getting-out-of-dodge-for-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/02\/13\/getting-out-of-dodge-for-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Out of Dodge for a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Narberth 2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/51879220048\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51879220048_3e88dda089_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Narberth 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>My son and I wanted to take in the latest <em>Spider-Man<\/em> movie, but we decided a change in venue was in order. We decided to take a short commuter train trip to the township of <em>Narberth<\/em> in Montgomery County to catch a matinee. We were operating within train and bus schedules so we had some time to explore the town which has a small but lively commercial district including the movie theater. Fortunately, it was an unseasonably nice day so we were able to wander around comfortably in light jackets.\u00a0 All in all, the town felt like the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NPR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NPR<\/strong><\/a> version of the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120789\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Pleasantville<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Narberth 2<\/em> was all right. It looks and feels like an old movie theater except it has digital projection and a pretty decent sound system. I was hoping it would have a velvet curtain that parted prior to the show, but there was no such luck.<\/p>\n<p>I was also pleasantly surprised by the <em>Spider-Man<\/em> movie. I thought super-hero movies had run their course and were on the way out, but it was pretty good. There&#8217;s still life left in that <em>wall crawling web-head!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son and I wanted to take in the latest Spider-Man movie, but we decided a change in venue was in order. We decided to take a short commuter train trip to the township of Narberth in Montgomery County to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/02\/13\/getting-out-of-dodge-for-a-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[77,31],"tags":[308,5273,196,5274,354,643],"class_list":["post-37254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-commuting","category-blast-from-the-past","tag-marvel","tag-montgomery-county","tag-movie","tag-narberth","tag-pennsylvania","tag-spider-man"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9GS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3667,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/08\/21\/sunday-matinee-a-hearty-welcome-to-our-drive-in-theater\/","url_meta":{"origin":37254,"position":0},"title":"Sunday Matinee: A Hearty Welcome to Our Drive-In Theatre","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"August 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Remember when the terms First Run, Second Run and Drive-In were used referring to movie theaters? 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