{"id":5,"date":"2004-08-11T08:57:17","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T13:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=5"},"modified":"2004-08-11T08:58:16","modified_gmt":"2004-08-11T13:58:16","slug":"things-i-will-never-get-used-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/11\/things-i-will-never-get-used-to\/","title":{"rendered":"things I will never get used to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another episode from the I-don&#8217;t-live-in-Grand-Rapids-anymore files.. <\/p>\n<p>So last night Jeremie and I went to see Bourne Supremacy at the Crown Theater in Greenwich with some friends. First of all, the theater is a pos but we knew that going in. The first five minutes of the film were fine but then the sound got all choppy and computerized-sounding so I went out to complain. A good 5 minutes later someone came in to check out the situation and after about 20 minutes the whole thing was resolved. <\/p>\n<p>Now if this had happened at any theater in GR, most likely there would be customer service people standing outside the doors once the movie was over and they&#8217;d be apologizing and giving coupons for free popcorn or even a free movie. At the Crown? Nothing.  Of course, I stopped at the ticket window after the show and asked about it and then the woman gave us passes but it blows my mind that I was the only person to do it.  <\/p>\n<p>People here routinely park cars on the street that cost more than I make in a couple of years. As we were walking to the theater last night we came across a Maybach and the boys got all excited. It is a very large auto but I didn&#8217;t find it overwhelmingly interesting. Apparently it costs well over $200K. How nice! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another episode from the I-don&#8217;t-live-in-Grand-Rapids-anymore files.. So last night Jeremie and I went to see Bourne Supremacy at the Crown Theater in Greenwich with some friends. First of all, the theater is a pos but we knew that going in. The first five minutes of the film were fine but then the sound got all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orangeparade.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}