{"id":1179,"date":"2011-04-30T17:34:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T21:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2011\/04\/30\/favorite-haunt\/"},"modified":"2011-05-03T17:58:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T21:58:19","slug":"favorite-haunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/1179","title":{"rendered":"Favorite haunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We scrubbed our original agenda to visit a museum and adopted a more relaxed plan to hang out in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/?s=Evanston\">Evanston<\/a>, see a movie, shop a little, and to gradually work our way north toward the base. We saw a matinee screening of \u201cThe Conspirator,\u201d which apparently is not burning up the box office this weekend. I thought the opening depiction of the assassination night was interesting, but the courtroom scenes were uninspired. Admittedly, they are very difficult to pull off. When not scripted with the typically unrealistic dynamics, they usually play out with a certain monotony or stereotypical dialogue. Lumet\u2019s \u201cThe Verdict\u201d ruined me for life, I suppose. Overall, I enjoyed the production design and art direction, but the picture lacked the story-telling power of Redford\u2019s early projects. I had a similar feeling when I recently watched Clint\u2019s \u201cHereafter.\u201d Afterward, Marty bought himself some sketching materials at Blick\u2019s and surprised me with a set of colored fine-points for card making. He gave Dana a gift of Hawaiian coffee beans. When I got online, I discovered that Joan had emailed a wonderful account of goings-on with our mother at the Gels funeral. It sounds like she was in rare form and provided everyone a taste of the true \u201cJinny Spirit.\u201d I hope Joan compiles her notes as a nice blog entry. Wish I could have been present, but we were exactly where we were supposed to be, and I pray for more such \u201cMombo Moments\u201d to experience firsthand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We scrubbed our original agenda to visit a museum and adopted a more relaxed plan to hang out in Evanston, see a movie, shop a little, and to gradually work our way north toward the base. We saw a matinee screening of \u201cThe Conspirator,\u201d which apparently is not burning up the box office this weekend. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,18,36,28,37,22,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}