{"id":1708,"date":"2005-04-21T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogger.scottyanderson.com\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2005-04-21T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-21T23:40:00","slug":"family-movie-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/?p=1708","title":{"rendered":"Family Movie Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan and I met up at lunch yesterday and ate at Basilio&#8217;s. He also gave me half the money for the parking permit. I did the normal stuff at work trying to get this stuff figured out.<\/p>\n<p>At five o&#8217;clock I got a pizza and went to Russell&#8217;s for movie night. We were going to watch Get Real and Beautiful Thing. Several family members came over to watch them as well. Steve, a friend of Nick&#8217;s also came over.<\/p>\n<p>After the first movie most of the people left. Nick, Steve, and I watched the second movie. Then Steve asked how I am a conservative\/Republican gay man. I started to explain my underlying beliefs and how those translate into aligning with the Republicans. I guess you could say that we are, but not always for the same reason. But the ends are the same, and the means of getting to the end I would like to see is in the pathway of the Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>I can say some of the things the Republicans are doing go against my beliefs, however, the things the democrats want to do are even farther away from what I would like to see, so I have to take the one that gives me the most of what I want.<\/p>\n<p>We started to watch Dr. Strangelove after that, but it was getting near two in the morning and I wanted to get home. So I gave them a ride back to Waller and went home myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan and I met up at lunch yesterday and ate at Basilio&#8217;s. He also gave me half the money for the parking permit. I did the normal stuff at work trying to get this stuff figured out. At five o&#8217;clock I got a pizza and went to Russell&#8217;s for movie night. We were going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}