{"id":6973,"date":"2015-12-02T18:57:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T01:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6973"},"modified":"2015-12-02T18:57:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T01:57:12","slug":"the-4-star-theatre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6973","title":{"rendered":"The 4 Star Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Janna Layton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The lucky cat figurine<br \/>\nwears a faded \u201cI voted\u201d sticker<br \/>\nand beckons the audience into the small lobby,<br \/>\nwhich smells of popcorn,<br \/>\nas any cinema should.<\/p>\n<p>By the napkins,<br \/>\na bubbling countertop fountain presents<br \/>\na horse and dragon<br \/>\nin carnival-prize ceramic.<\/p>\n<p>Hot tea,<br \/>\ncold mints,<br \/>\nold carpet.<\/p>\n<p>The doorway leads to a shoebox diorama:<br \/>\nbattered floorboards,<br \/>\nempty seats,<br \/>\nwalls and ceiling a shade of burgundy<br \/>\nthat warms the darkness,<br \/>\nthe screen blank and waiting<br \/>\nand framed in gold.<\/p>\n<p>All these will hold you<br \/>\nuntil the kung-fu kick or Appalachian rifle ends the fight,<br \/>\nuntil the credits roll over a desert or blackness<br \/>\nand you wander out onto Clement Street,<br \/>\nthe fog lit by neon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JANNA LAYTON<\/strong> lives in San Francisco. Her poetry and fiction have been published or are upcoming in various literary journals, including <em>Mythic Delirium<\/em>, <em>Apex<\/em>, <em>Goblin Fruit<\/em>, <em>The Golden Key<\/em>, and <em>Star*Line<\/em>. She blogs at readingwatchinglookingandstuff.blogspot.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janna Layton The lucky cat figurine wears a faded \u201cI voted\u201d sticker and beckons the audience into the small lobby, which smells of popcorn, as any cinema should. By the napkins, a bubbling countertop fountain presents a horse and dragon &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/?page_id=6973\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":6969,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6973","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P15duy-1Ot","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6981,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6973\/revisions\/6981"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerseydevilpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}