{"id":597,"date":"2019-02-10T01:07:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T01:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wordpress\/?p=597"},"modified":"2019-02-10T01:07:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T01:07:27","slug":"dinner-and-a-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/2019\/02\/10\/dinner-and-a-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner and A Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going to the movies and having a snack or beverage while in the wheelchair is often a struggle.\u00a0 You have to balance the snack, the drink, and often use both arms to lift and\/or stabilize each (if you&#8217;re able to lift them).\u00a0 Yet using a wheelchair tray is an even bigger hassle, having to haul around a giant piece of wood or plastic that sits atop the armrests.<\/p>\n<p>A few times, this balancing act has resulted in disaster, involving spilled nachos , soda, etc.\u00a0 Even the dine-in theaters rarely accommodate wheelchairs, aside from an empty spot to park the wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, just last week, my fiancee and I went to see a movie at a newer theater, <del>BrewFlix <\/del>(edit: this was a typo, the theater is called Flix Brewhouse &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flixbrewhouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.flixbrewhouse.com\/<\/a>), that not only had roll-away chairs, to allow for wheelchair users to sit anywhere in the accessible row, but also had a counter at a good height for accommodating wheelchair users.\u00a0 Even the push button to call the wait-staff was at a nice accessible location.<\/p>\n<p>As such, Lisa and I were able to enjoy tasty beverages and tasty nachos (with Queso blanco with green chilies), without fear of spills or drops, while watching Glass (which I recommend).\u00a0 It was a fun way to spend our Super Bowl Sunday (as I hear we didn&#8217;t miss anything).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going to the movies and having a snack or beverage while in the wheelchair is often a struggle.\u00a0 You have to balance the snack, the drink, and often use both arms to lift and\/or stabilize each (if you&#8217;re able to lift them).\u00a0 Yet using a wheelchair tray is an even bigger hassle, having to haul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stayingfrosty.net\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}