{"id":500,"date":"2003-07-07T15:51:16","date_gmt":"2003-07-07T23:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=500"},"modified":"2026-06-19T10:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:31:47","slug":"sigh-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"*Sigh*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--105760747653959431-->Yeah. So I got chatted up by a really cute clerk yesterday when making a purchase at the local Circuit City. I was puchasing a copy of the 1976 film version of Stephen King&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00005K3NR\/qid=1057606164\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/103-2870905-4188616?v=glance&amp;s=dvd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Carrie<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; directed by Brian DePalma. He rang up my purchase and started talking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00009QG7O\/qid=1057606895\/sr=1-8\/ref=sr_1_8\/002-3994148-5660028?v=glance&amp;s=dvd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>really bad tv version<\/strong><\/a> that was recently shown on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NBC<\/strong><\/a>. We then discussed the books &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenking.com\/pages\/Works\/Dreamcatcher\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dreamcatcher<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenking.com\/pages\/Works\/From_a_Buick_8\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>From a Buick 8<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; and then talked a little about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hplovecraft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>H.P. Lovecraft<\/strong><\/a>. Good thing that he mentioned an ex-girlfriend or might have made and idiot out of myself by asking him out. Dark, curly hair <u>and<\/u> into horror films\/fiction. *Sigh* Sales clerks just need to ring up your purchases and not be overly friendly (unless they are hitting on you).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah. So I got chatted up by a really cute clerk yesterday when making a purchase at the local Circuit City. I was puchasing a copy of the 1976 film version of Stephen King&#8217;s &#8220;Carrie&#8221; directed by Brian DePalma. He rang up my purchase and started talking about the really bad tv version that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[6,2,11,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-daily","category-dvd","category-horror","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-84","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11295,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/11295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}