{"id":263,"date":"2002-11-05T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-05T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=263"},"modified":"2002-11-05T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2002-11-05T14:57:00","slug":"263","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucomics.com\/boondocks\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ucomics.com\/comics\/bo\/2002\/bo021105.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"197\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Boondocks comic: President Bush spoke out on the economy today, saying that America is in the middle of a robust economic upturn. 'Unfortunately,' he said, 'most Americans simply refuse to acknowledge this because they can't look past their own miserable, destitute lives. Very selfish.'\"><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>The weather here in Hartford is beautiful this week, cool but sunny.  Now that I&#8217;m in my final week I&#8217;m almost (but not quite) sorry I&#8217;m wrapping up so soon.  Tonight I&#8217;m going back to the Hartford Stage to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hartfordstage.org\/2002-2003\/showpages\/03_edgardo\/edgardo.htm\">Edgardo Mine<\/a>, a new play by Alfred Uhry, based on a true story about a Jewish family in Bologna in 1858 whose six-year-old son, baptised Christian, is taken into custody by the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>Only seven days until the release of the Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition) on DVD!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather here in Hartford is beautiful this week, cool but sunny. Now that I&#8217;m in my final week I&#8217;m almost (but not quite) sorry I&#8217;m wrapping up so soon. Tonight I&#8217;m going back to the Hartford Stage to see Edgardo Mine, a new play by Alfred Uhry, based on a true story about a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}