{"id":1712,"date":"2005-07-05T10:45:55","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T14:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2026-05-12T14:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:14:30","slug":"update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gosh. The last few days were so crazy\/busy &#8230; another one of those &#8220;gotta go back to work to get some rest&#8221; kinda holiday weekends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday<\/strong><br \/>\nGot my copy of &#8220;Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince&#8221; ordered &#8230; finally. We are just a mere ten days from its release. Tee-hee!!! Alas, the cute bookseller was not at the store. I guess we can&#8217;t have everything, can we?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday<\/strong><br \/>\nHosted the ten-year reunion of the &#8220;Seven,&#8221; a great group of friends that all met while doing a show. Several folks came in from out of town for the occasion. It was really great to reconnect with people that I hadn&#8217;t seen (in person) in a few years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday<\/strong><br \/>\nThen it was back to hosting again as practically anybody who is anybody came to my place for &#8220;The 4th on the 3rd&#8221; cookout. I stayed sober. Other folks were making drunken confessions. Amazing. I think most folks had a good time. Big news of the day was that I have been asked to direct &#8220;Cabaret&#8221; next year for the local theater. Crazy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;War of the Worlds,&#8221; baby! I dug the movie. It&#8217;s not the greatest piece of cinema. I really just wanted to see aliens blow shit up, and that&#8217;s what I got. The movie really suffers from the typical Spielberg &#8220;tricks&#8221; &#8230; but did I mention that aliens blow shit up?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ratime: The Musical&#8221; is gonna make us all look like idiots. &#8216;Nuff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gosh. The last few days were so crazy\/busy &#8230; another one of those &#8220;gotta go back to work to get some rest&#8221; kinda holiday weekends. Friday Got my copy of &#8220;Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince&#8221; ordered &#8230; finally. We are just a mere ten days from its release. Tee-hee!!! Alas, the cute bookseller was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8EnCu-update","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10487,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/10487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}