{"id":1096,"date":"2006-12-20T00:22:29","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T08:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2006-12-21T00:11:02","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T08:11:02","slug":"weak-weak-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"Weak, weak performance."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was unable to do much at the gym today. I&#8217;m not sure why. Perhaps it&#8217;s too much sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking around to see if one of my favorite Xmas movies was going to be on TV, and I couldn&#8217;t find the 1951 version of <a title=\"Scrooge on imdb.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0044008\/\"><em>Scrooge<\/em><\/a> with Alastair Sim anywhere. I&#8217;ve heard you can get it for a pittance, but I bought it on Amazon so I can see it any time I feel like it. (Mainly in late December, mind you.) I was also tempted to buy <em>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<\/em>, <em>A Christmas Story<\/em>, and <em>Comfort and Joy<\/em> but I restrained myself. I may have to buy <em>Comfort and Joy<\/em> (the 1984 Bill Forsyth movie) but it&#8217;s only on Region 2 DVDs. Blast that Region encoding nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>I re-joined Greencine so I can start watching more movies. I know I should probably just join the masses and use Netflix instead, but I&#8217;m just a little too contrary. We&#8217;ll see if I watch any of the movies I get or if I just let them sit around like I used to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was unable to do much at the gym today. I&#8217;m not sure why. Perhaps it&#8217;s too much sleep. I was looking around to see if one of my favorite Xmas movies was going to be on TV, and I couldn&#8217;t find the 1951 version of Scrooge with Alastair Sim anywhere. I&#8217;ve heard you can get it for a pittance, but I bought it on Amazon so I can see it any time I feel like it. (Mainly in late December, mind you.) I was also tempted to buy It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story, and Comfort and Joy but I restrained myself. I may have to buy Comfort &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1096\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weak, weak performance.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/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-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}