{"id":1152,"date":"2006-07-09T18:48:11","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T21:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2006-07-09T18:48:11","modified_gmt":"2006-07-09T21:48:11","slug":"adventures-on-the-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1152","title":{"rendered":"Adventures on the Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span> couple of unrelated remarks:\n<\/p>\n<p> We saw Terry Gilliams<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0355295\/\">&#8216;The Grimm Brothers&#8217;<\/a> this weekend, which I summarized and described to my <em>egaa<\/em> as &#8216;remarkably painful to watch&#8217;. The premise (&#8216;Let Brothers Grimm experience their tales themselves&#8217;) is good and brilliant: the movie is literally a visual fairy tale of fairy tales, but that&#8217;s it. It&#8217;s so dreadful and boring that it hurt the brains. If you&#8217;re a programmer, consider wrapping a cold wet towel around your head <em>before<\/em> watching this movie. Or a &#8216;tin foil hat&#8217; for that matter. Anything.\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier we had salad for supper, which had some pieces of white and black peppers (you Europeans call them &#8216;paprikas&#8217;) from Holland, no less. Artificially bred peppers. For some kind of reason that led to a brief discussion about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/2498669.stm\">the origin of dogs<\/a>. Hello Wolf. Meet Peppers.\n<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup Soccer is over! The winner is <em>Italy<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/world_cup_2006\/4991652.stm\">After penalties<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/newsforums.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/thread.jspa?threadID=2494&#038;&#038;&#038;edition=1&#038;ttl=20060709224221\">Boring<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of unrelated remarks: We saw Terry Gilliams&#8216;The Grimm Brothers&#8217; this weekend, which I summarized and described to my egaa as &#8216;remarkably painful to watch&#8217;. The premise (&#8216;Let Brothers Grimm experience their tales themselves&#8217;) is good and brilliant: the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1152\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}