{"id":19375,"date":"2015-04-06T16:15:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T21:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19375"},"modified":"2015-04-06T16:48:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T21:48:25","slug":"eight-years-after-tornado-greensburg-to-have-theater-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19375","title":{"rendered":"Eight years after tornado, Greensburg to have theater again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) \u2014 Greensburg is getting a movie theater again after a massive tornado leveled much of the Kiowa County town eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Twilight Theater will begin showing films this month, with grand opening events scheduled for April 24-25.<\/p>\n<p>The Hutchinson News reports (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1HGXhQb\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1HGXhQb<\/a>) the theater opened in 1917 and was a hub of activity until it closed in 1989. It later reopened and operated as a nonprofit theater until the tornado. Renovations had been scheduled to begin in May 2007, but an EF5 tornado destroyed 95 percent of the town that month.<\/p>\n<p>Funds were raised again. Theater executive director Adam Wagner says new the building has state-of-the-art sound, lighting and concessions systems.<\/p>\n<p>Kiowa County schools will also use the building as an auditorium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) \u2014 Greensburg is getting a movie theater again after a massive tornado leveled much of the Kiowa County town eight years ago.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397],"tags":[5344,5345,5348,5346,5347],"class_list":["post-19375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-news","tag-greensburg","tag-greensburg-kansas","tag-greensburg-theatre","tag-kiowa-county","tag-twilight-theater"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19421,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19375\/revisions\/19421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}