{"id":6344,"date":"2007-05-10T19:01:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T23:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2010-07-16T15:54:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T19:54:34","slug":"cultural-hodge-podge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6344","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Hodge Podge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am, at this moment in time:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; reading <i>1001 Arabian Nights<\/i> and having the time of my life<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; reading a biography of Andrew Jackson<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; waiting for two movies to arrive: <i>The Searchers<\/i> and <i>Lady from Shanghai<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; watching <i>Demolition Man<\/i> for the bazillionth time<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; listening to Avril Lavigne&#8217;s latest album &#8211; catchy!  Yet also filled with girl-on-girl scorn which is a turn-off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; getting ready for my second installment of my Shakespeare project.  <i>Taming of the Shrew<\/i> is next.  I&#8217;ve been working on it for a week now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; contemplating starting a bikram yoga class<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; researching the Druze in Lebanon.  Just because.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; doing in-depth research about how to effectively wash my makeup brushes &#8211; which I paid a shitload of money for.  Any suggestions welcome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; re-discovering the offensive pleasure of h*enta*i<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; putting together a collage of Cary Grant photos from <i>Penny Serenade<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; obsessing on the fact that tomorrow Social Security is going to reveal the top baby names of 2006 &#8230; what will be the top name for boys?  For girls?  Can I BEAR to wait until tomorrow?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.  I have worked on &#8211; or thought about &#8211; or experienced &#8211; each one of these separate items &#8211; all in one 24 hour period.  What the hell is my problem?  Can&#8217;t I put the Druze on the back burner and just &#8230; oh &#8230; enjoy the spring twilight?<\/p>\n<p>NO.<\/p>\n<p>I CANNOT.<\/p>\n<p>THE DRUZE WAITS FOR NO ONE.<\/p>\n<p>Neither does <i>Demolition Man<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am, at this moment in time: &#8212; reading 1001 Arabian Nights and having the time of my life &#8212; reading a biography of Andrew Jackson &#8212; waiting for two movies to arrive: The Searchers and Lady from Shanghai &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6344\">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":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22083,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions\/22083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}