{"id":451,"date":"2010-05-02T22:38:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T05:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=451"},"modified":"2010-07-31T18:29:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T01:29:58","slug":"gratuitous-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Gratuitous Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on the WoW a little today&#8230;in the car&#8230;on the way to the Pecan St. Festival.<br \/>\nOn the way home, TH was REALLY enjoying the new car, so I had to put the needles down for a bit to hold onto the handle Audi had the foresight to provide. :)<\/br><\/br>Then we had a friend over and watched Boondock Saints 2.<br \/>\nNow, I discovered Boondock Saints (the original) a little behind the curve when Netflix recommended it to me. It is a GREAT film. It has everything I like in a movie:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quotable Lines<\/li>\n<li>Good soundtrack<\/li>\n<li>Cute guys (bonus points b\/c there is more than one AND they have cute accents)<\/li>\n<li>Shooting<\/li>\n<li>Bad Guys get what&#8217;s coming to them<\/li>\n<li>Happy Ending<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last two are separate bullet items b\/c sometimes the bad guys get what they deserve, but you don&#8217;t get a happy ending (think Braveheart).<br \/>\nAnd I thought to myself, what is it about me that likes a little gratuituos violence? I&#8217;m not really a violent person. I don&#8217;t think I even believe in spanking&#8230;.I plan to make my kids weed flowerbeds or come up with creative punishments that fit the crime&#8230;.assuming we have kids&#8230;but that&#8217;s a separate blog topic entirely.<\/br><br \/>\nI decided I have no idea. I think it is a means to an end? or do I feel about guns the way some ppl feel about fast cars? who knows. I like the bad guy getting what he deserves and preferably a happy ending for the two cute guys. :) So, BDS 2 was a good movie. I think I&#8217;m going to have to watch the first one again to decide which I like better&#8230;..and I&#8217;m hoping for a third installment in the not TOO distant future! :)<\/br><br \/>\nIn other news, a friend said I&#8217;d gone from zero to knitting queen in about a year&#8230;&#8230;what a lovely compliment! :) I&#8217;m writing it here, so I can recall it the next time I want to put a knitting needle through my eye b\/c I&#8217;m so frustrated with something. :)<\/br><br \/>\nHappy May, everyone! :)<\/br><br \/>\n(5\/2\/2010 10:38 pm)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked on the WoW a little today&#8230;in the car&#8230;on the way to the Pecan St. Festival. On the way home, TH was REALLY enjoying the new car, so I had to put the needles down for a bit to hold onto the handle Audi had the foresight to provide. :)Then we had a friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}