{"id":447,"date":"2005-07-24T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2005-07-24T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T15:58:00","slug":"chapter-23-in-which-we-become-shut-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 23, In Which We Become Shut-Ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s so hot, we didn&#8217;t even go to the movies last night. Because even though movie theaters are supposed to be FREEZING, especially in the summer? Last weekend we went, and they weren&#8217;t. And sitting in a room with 200 people in the dark, while trickles of sweat race from my temples is not what I call a &#8220;good time&#8221;. There is only so much technology can do in the face of 90-degree-plus heat. And yesterday? It was 100 degrees. And then there&#8217;s the whole journeying process, from the door to the interior of a car, which probably reached levels hot enough to bake muffins yesterday, and then there&#8217;s walking from the mile-away parking space, and so we decided to stay inside &#038; drink slushy pina coladas. JWo played backgammon on the computer, and watched a movie, and I read. Finished Harry Potter this morning, weepy &#038; yet still fufilled. <\/p>\n<p>And relieved. Because my favorite radio station gave away the ending on Monday, but because I was too busy either talking on the phone, or listening to Coldplay, I didn&#8217;t hear it. WHEW! They did it again on Friday, and who knows how many times in between, but by that time, I had heard they were doing it, and I announced to JWo I was going to No Media Status.  CD&#8217;s in the car, CD&#8217;s at work, and very skittish viewing of web news &#038; blogs. The radio station ruined it for my friend Roger &#038; he was quite bummed &#8211; and even though I started to flip ahead (to help myself brace for the news), I got busted by James &#038; realized the error of my ways. :) Sigh. At least now I can discuss it with my friends!<\/p>\n<p>If I ever leave the house&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s so hot, we didn&#8217;t even go to the movies last night. Because even though movie theaters are supposed to be FREEZING, especially in the summer? Last weekend we went, and they weren&#8217;t. And sitting in a room with 200 people in the dark, while trickles of sweat race from my temples is not what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}