{"id":979,"date":"2005-06-21T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/979"},"modified":"2005-06-21T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T02:37:00","slug":"safe-in-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/979","title":{"rendered":"Safe in Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arrived in B.C. a couple of hours ago. Rented the damned car. Picked up groceries, bought 4 new DVDs that I haven&#8217;t yet seen to watch (yes, I&#8217;m a compulsive acquisitor, leave me alone) &#8211; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (<lj user=\"caellum\">&#8216;s reaction attracted me to it&#8230; I&#8217;ll post a review later); Anchorman, because you can never have enough Will Ferrel; Legal Eagles, which I have been waiting for-fricking-ever for the DVD release of, because you can never have enough Daryl Hannah; and The Notebook, because dammit that onstage kiss at the MTV movie awards was HOT, and I like seeing two hot Canadians smooch. There needs to be more of that good stuff. <\/p>\n<p>So, all in all, we&#8217;re settled in. I&#8217;ve unpacked my three pairs of heels, two flip flops, endless graphic tees, wedding-wear dress, etc, JVL and I tested out the cedar sauna, but have been baffled, stunned, frustrated, and ultimately defeated by the whirlpool jets on the tub, and now I need to stay awake long enough to go pick up my Mum and Aunt at the airport in three hours.<\/p>\n<p>Will report back more later. Still want to get exercise on this trip, whether it is biking, hiking, or kayaking. Ta ta for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arrived in B.C. a couple of hours ago. Rented the damned car. Picked up groceries, bought 4 new DVDs that I haven&#8217;t yet seen to watch (yes, I&#8217;m a compulsive acquisitor, leave me alone) &#8211; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (&#8216;s reaction attracted me to it&#8230; I&#8217;ll post a review later); Anchorman, because you <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/979\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}