{"id":171,"date":"2006-01-16T18:54:06","date_gmt":"2006-01-16T22:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/?p=171"},"modified":"2006-01-16T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2006-01-16T22:54:06","slug":"football-avoidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/2006\/01\/16\/football-avoidance\/","title":{"rendered":"Football avoidance"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a change of pace (no A-list or Web 2.0 here) I thought I’d share what I did this weekend to avoid the NFL Playoffs. <\/p>\n

Understand a couple of things: my husband is a HUGE football fan. All football. He was raised in Pittsburgh and we now live outside Boston. I on the other hand, just don’t get it. I much prefer hockey and basketball. I will watch the Super Bowl, for the ads as much as anything, but all the games leading up to it? YAWN!<\/p>\n

So, Saturday night I took my mom out to dinner at Number 9 Park<\/a> and then to see Little Women<\/a> at the Boston Opera House. The play was very good, although I agree with the Boston Globe reviewer who said that none of the songs was a break-out hit (I’d  link to the review online but the Globe.com<\/a> site is so hard to navigate, I can’t find it). And you needed to know the story; without the knowledge from the Louisa May Alcott book<\/a> or at minimum one of the movies<\/a>, it would be hard to follow. Good news of course is that most girls in the US read Little Women as a matter of course, and this was definitely a "chick play." <\/p>\n

Sunday: Brokeback Mountain<\/a> finally made it to the local theatre, and away I went. If you haven’t seen it yet, GO!!!! It was one of the best films I have seen in years. <\/p>\n

One thing that occurred to me after seeing both of these: the folks that adapted Little Women took a pretty fat book and condensed it to about 2-1\/2 hours. And the folks that adapted the short story by Annie Proulx <\/a>took a slim story and made it into a film just about as long. Luckily, neither seemed too long \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Next week, I’ll be taking my son to see Chronicles of Narnia<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a change of pace (no A-list or Web 2.0 here) I thought I’d share what I did this weekend to avoid the NFL Playoffs. Understand a couple of things: my husband is a HUGE football fan. All football. He was raised in Pittsburgh and we now live outside Boston. I on the other hand, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}