{"id":2288,"date":"2017-09-16T21:15:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T02:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2017-09-16T21:17:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T02:17:18","slug":"who-can-i-turn-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"who can i turn to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>if you believe still<br \/>\nthat England don&#8217;t love you<br \/>\nand she never will<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Freelance has hit a bit of a lull lately; it&#8217;s been hard to figure out what to do with myself in my off-evenings (when I don&#8217;t go for a run).   I should be putting the pieces together for the eventual launch of my full-time freelance endeavor, but a larger part of me wants some creative expression tonight.  So here I am.<\/li>\n<li>P and I ran errands late this afternoon.  I decided it would be an &#8220;all U2&#8221; car ride.  She particularly liked &#8220;Stay (Faraway, So Close).&#8221;  This made me exceedingly happy.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve started rewatching <em>Cowboy Bebop<\/em>.  I want to live in that world, where interplanetary travel is so easy and effortless.  I wish more people felt as strongly as I do that we need to get off this little blue-and-green rock.  In that one respect, the technological curve can&#8217;t be vertical enough.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of interplanetary travel, a few weeks ago I watched <em>Passengers<\/em>.  Contra all the negative reviews, I really enjoyed it.  I didn&#8217;t feel like the action-filled third act detracted from the film, but flowed from and felt integral to the rest of the movie.  It wasn&#8217;t a simple MacGuffin, in other words&#8212;and the situations encountered directly addressed some of the ethical questions raised earlier.  The film&#8217;s director seems to have put forth as his main goal in making <em>Passengers<\/em> to get viewers to ask themselves whether or not we would have acted in the same manner as the protagonist, given his situation, but I think the film holds up on many other levels besides just that one.  Well-acted, beautifully-shot, tightly-constructed and funny&#8212;recommended.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if you believe still that England don&#8217;t love you and she never will Freelance has hit a bit of a lull lately; it&#8217;s been hard to figure out what to do with myself in my off-evenings (when I don&#8217;t go for a run). I should be putting the pieces together for the eventual launch of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/2288"}],"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=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}