{"id":184,"date":"2004-07-28T19:11:45","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T02:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/28\/choices-2.html"},"modified":"2004-07-28T19:11:45","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T02:11:45","slug":"choices-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/07\/28\/choices-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all make choices in our daily lives; today, I chose between witnessing a moment in the political history of our country, and watching a morning matinee.  Yesterday at work, I got a call from the Kerry-Edwards campaign offering me tickets to a rally to greet Sen. Kerry at the Charlestown Navy Yard this morning.  I accepted, and Aimee figured out how we&#8217;d get there (the T to the water taxi, across the harbor, which would have been interesting), but by this morning, the forecast had turned to a torrential downpour, so we decided against the rally and instead&#8230;went to a 10:30 am matinee of <I>The Bourne Supremacy<\/I>.  Probably not the wisest choice, but it was fun to sneak a movie in in the middle of the day, and the idea of waiting three hours for a five minute speech wasn&#8217;t that appealing, as I&#8217;d already seen the man in person <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/24\/magnetism.html\">at a Sox game<\/A> awhile back. The movie was a lot of fun, all handheld, all the time, but with an air of dirty realism that sets it apart from other more frivolous and implausible spy thrillers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all make choices in our daily lives; today, I chose between witnessing a moment in the political history of our country, and watching a morning matinee. Yesterday at work, I got a call from the Kerry-Edwards campaign offering me tickets to a rally to greet Sen. Kerry at the Charlestown Navy Yard this morning. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambridge","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}