{"id":238,"date":"2006-04-28T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/28\/the-cornfield-meeting-results-popt2t\/"},"modified":"2006-04-28T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T11:15:00","slug":"the-cornfield-meeting-results-popt2t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/28\/the-cornfield-meeting-results-popt2t\/","title":{"rendered":"the cornfield, meeting results, PoP:T2T"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever see that episode of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/It\">Twilight Zone<\/a> with the creepy little boy named Anthony? He&#8217;s apparently got god-like powers, a bad attitude, and the abilty to &#8220;wish things to the cornfield&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Last night at the Olive Garden, I seriously wished I could be that Anthony. A family at the next table over had a child who &#8211; for no apparent reason &#8211; would perodically shriek at the top of his lungs. They were soon replaced by a group of painfully loud people. It should be noted that the group contained a guy wearing a shirt that said, &#8220;Diamonds are forever, but she&#8217;ll never forget the crabs&#8221;. Yep, it was that kind of crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, despite my best efforts, they remained loud and at the table. So, dinner was finished quickly and an exit was located. I&#8217;m all for enjoying a dinner with friends, but these people were just being rude.<\/p>\n<p>The webteam meeting yesterday was fairly uneventful &#8211; not sure what all the hype was.<\/p>\n<p>Playing a new game at home &#8211; Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones.    Pretty cool, but a little frustrating.   Yesterday I had to climb a series of platforms, attack and blind a giant, then stab him in the shins till he fell over and I could finish him off.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect today will be a long day  &#8211; time to get back to it&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-114622414489312933?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever see that episode of the Twilight Zone with the creepy little boy named Anthony? He&#8217;s apparently got god-like powers, a bad attitude, and the abilty to &#8220;wish things to the cornfield&#8221;. Last night at the Olive Garden, I seriously wished I could be that Anthony. A family at the next table over had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}