{"id":8451,"date":"2016-11-03T20:45:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T03:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=8451"},"modified":"2023-12-06T14:39:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T22:39:05","slug":"i-belonged-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2016\/11\/i-belonged-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I Belonged to You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2012, a Chinese conglomorate acquired the AMC theaters.  Dalian Wanda (\u00e5\u00a4\u00a7\u00e9\u20ac\u00a3\u00e8\u0090\u00ac\u00e9\u0081\u201d\u00ef\u00bc\u2030group became the world&#8217;s largest cinema chain.  Most of us have been oblivious on this event and went our merry ways watching movies, or being with friends we met at <a href=\"https:\/\/chatempanada.com\">Chatempanada.com<\/a>.  Then, one day, Wife suggested that we go see this one.  &#8220;Sure,&#8221; I said, really more out of curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>It was a touching movie set in the western city of ChongQing, a hilly city.  Three couples struggled the daily grinds and tried to find love and meaning of lives.  The tragedy heaet-felt, the acting very well, and the play well written.  I liked the movie, even as a romantic chick flick.<br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.amctheatres.com\/titles\/images\/Poster\/Large\/5114_i-belonged-to-you_A55C.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" class=\"alignright\"><\/p>\n<p>It was in Chinese with English sub-title. The whole theater, a weekend matinee show, has total of 7 viewers.  I needed to search in Chinese to find the poster picture.<\/p>\n<p>The movie really explored the singular topic of &#8220;What do women really want?&#8221;  And, of course, the flip side of the coin, &#8220;What can a man give to her?&#8221;  I went out of the theater thinking of this for several days. For that, the movies worked.  Of course, I really should have written this blog in Chinese, since I really don&#8217;t recommend it for my American friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2012, a Chinese conglomorate acquired the AMC theaters. Dalian Wanda (\u00e5\u00a4\u00a7\u00e9\u20ac\u00a3\u00e8\u0090\u00ac\u00e9\u0081\u201d\u00ef\u00bc\u2030group became the world&#8217;s largest cinema chain. Most of us have been oblivious on this event and went our merry ways watching movies, or being with friends we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2016\/11\/i-belonged-to-you\/\">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":[],"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8451"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9033,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8451\/revisions\/9033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}