{"id":212,"date":"2005-06-29T19:27:22","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T19:27:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-06-29T19:27:22","modified_gmt":"2005-06-29T19:27:22","slug":"on-grills-and-killers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/06\/29\/on-grills-and-killers\/","title":{"rendered":"On Grills and Killers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from a conference in Boston.  Some interesting things I learned while walking to the Boston Beer Garden were (a) the Yankees are Chokers and (b) R. Kelly slept with Derek Jeter\u2019s wife.  This is what a lot of t-shirts had on them that were for sale outside of Fenway Park.  So it must be true.<\/p>\n<p>My new Weber Grill won\u2019t arrive until July 6th.  Oh well, no grilling for me this weekend.  Such is life.<\/p>\n<p>I purchased the Killers \u201cHot Fuss\u201d CD right before I left for Boston.  The lovely brown box was waiting for me when I got home.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry Jonathan, but that was a wasted $9.99.  I was reading a review of some band (Franz Ferdinand maybe?) and the comment I remembered was \u201cif you are 30+ years old, you\u2019ve heard this before.\u201d  That\u2019s how I\u2019d sum up the Killers CD.<\/p>\n<p>Snow Patrol\u2019s \u201cFinal Straw\u201d was also in the shipment, and that is a much better retro-sound.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned from a conference in Boston. Some interesting things I learned while walking to the Boston Beer Garden were (a) the Yankees are Chokers and (b) R. Kelly slept with Derek Jeter\u2019s wife. This is what a lot of t-shirts had on them that were for sale outside of Fenway Park. So it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/06\/29\/on-grills-and-killers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Grills and Killers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","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-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}