{"id":131,"date":"2009-01-17T21:11:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T04:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=131"},"modified":"2009-02-04T22:11:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T06:11:29","slug":"memorable-massachusetts-milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2009\/01\/17\/memorable-massachusetts-milestones\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorable Massachusetts milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even ignoring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2008\/12\/22\/flight-from-the-twilight-zone-or-remind-me-why-i-fly-to-boston-for-christmas\/\" class=\"unemphasized\">my flight cancellation fiasco<\/a>, my trip to Massachusetts for Christmas\/New Year&#8217;s a few weeks ago was particularly memorable, being full of a number of firsts for me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was the first time that I&#8217;ve played <i>Guitar Hero<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>It was the first time that I&#8217;ve used a Wii Fit.<\/li>\n<li>It was the first time that I&#8217;ve played <i>Brain Age<\/i>. (I apparently impressed my cousins by getting &#8220;jet speed&#8221; on the basic arithmetic tests.  I stink at Sudoku though, but I already knew that.)<\/li>\n<li>It was the first time that I&#8217;ve tried Comcast video-on-demand.  I&#8217;m thoroughly unimpressed by the selection. (It was particularly disappointing considering that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadgethd.com\/2008\/09\/12\/comcast-hits-the-sauce-a-little-too-hard-claims-more-hd-than-di\/\" class =\"unemphasized\">Comcast misleadingly includes its video-on-demand selection in its advertised comparisons against DirecTV<\/a>.) I like Netflix Instant Watch on TiVo better.<\/li>\n<li>It was the first time that I&#8217;ve rented a car.<\/li>\n<li>It was the first time that I&#8217;ve driven in Boston.  I hate rotaries.<\/li>\n<li>It was the first time that I&#8217;ve (sort of) driven on snow.  Okay, it was mostly limited to driveways, but that was still plenty scary for me.  The streets I drove on were plowed.<\/li>\n<li>It was the first (and hopefully the last) time that I&#8217;ve been in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/images\/20081231_accident.jpg\">a car while it rolled over<\/a>. (No, this isn&#8217;t related to any of the previous items.  I wasn&#8217;t brave\/crazy enough to drive while it was snowing.  And yes, everyone thankfully escaped injury.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even ignoring my flight cancellation fiasco, my trip to Massachusetts for Christmas\/New Year&#8217;s a few weeks ago was particularly memorable, being full of a number of firsts for me: It was the first time that I&#8217;ve played Guitar Hero. It was the first time that I&#8217;ve used a Wii Fit. It was the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}