{"id":119,"date":"2001-12-25T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-25T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2001-12-25T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2001-12-25T23:24:00","slug":"119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the party&#8217;s at my house next time.  We got a PS2 with GT3 A-Spec, and with my Beatles records, we have the makings of a happenin&#8217; get-together, not to mention <i>War<\/i> and <i>Achtung Baby<\/i>, two albums by this little Irish band, and the Moulin Rouge soundtrack.  I&#8217;ll be sonically entertained for a while.  Now, if only I actually owned a cd player&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No car parts this year except for jumper cables, which don&#8217;t really count.  Anyone care to second the opinion that my parents might not have the utmost confidence in my mechanical abilities?  I also got a 13-cd set of a radio performance of The Lord of the Rings by the BBC.  Once again, there&#8217;s that whole not-owning-a-cd-player issue.  I&#8217;ll figure something out.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been quiet.  I&#8217;ve eaten far, far too many sweets.  The roast we had for dinner was good.  I had a spot of Grey Poupon on it, which was lovely (How d&#8217;you like that sentence?  More tea and crumpets, love?)  I had been missing mustard, no thanks to a certain female who&#8217;s been revamping my culinary repertoire  :o)<\/p>\n<p>Anyone want to go skiing on the 27th?  I&#8217;m going up to Snowshoe in West Virginia for a day trip.  Let me know, and I&#8217;ll hammer out some details for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the party&#8217;s at my house next time. We got a PS2 with GT3 A-Spec, and with my Beatles records, we have the makings of a happenin&#8217; get-together, not to mention War and Achtung Baby, two albums by this little Irish band, and the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. I&#8217;ll be sonically entertained for a while. Now, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}