{"id":517,"date":"2004-08-12T14:38:28","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T19:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/08\/12\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-16T02:06:13","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T06:06:13","slug":"time-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2004\/08\/12\/time-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>The past few weeks have gone by really quickly.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago, I went with C. to see The Bourne Supremacy and to have lunch in Chinatown.  It was good, though the day was ridiculously humid and thus made it feel about 20 degrees warmer than it actually was.  We went to the Commons, and our show was 20 minutes after the cutoff for matinee prices.<\/p>\n<p>On the up side, the movie was good, and I also now know where the Opera House is located.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, E and I went to see Thunderbirds and had lunch at Brigham&#8217;s.  Here I had the opposite surprise: the movie ticket was far <i>less<\/i> than I expected. At $4.50 for a matinee, it was, in fact, less expensive to go to the movie than to rent it as a new DVD from Blockbuster.  That is just pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>Also Pathetic are the &#8220;savings&#8221; at Kitchen Etc.  The entire chain is going out of business, and their stores are plastered with signs saying &#8220;Everything Must Go&#8221; and &#8220;Big Savings!&#8221;, yet their maximum discount is presently 30%, and the majority of items are still only 20% off.  That&#8217;s not &#8220;Everything must go&#8221;, that&#8217;s &#8220;ho-hum, let&#8217;s have a sale&#8221;. <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few weeks have gone by really quickly. A couple of weeks ago, I went with C. to see The Bourne Supremacy and to have lunch in Chinatown. It was good, though the day was ridiculously humid and thus made it feel about 20 degrees warmer than it actually was. We went to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}