{"id":1673,"date":"2008-09-07T23:03:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T23:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2008-09-07T23:03:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T23:03:24","slug":"money-well-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1673","title":{"rendered":"Money well spent."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are an uncertain number of things in this world that are worth every penny you spend on them.  This summer I&#8217;ve been blessed with two of them: our trip to Greece in July (especially the extra time Laura and I spent on the island of Santorini) and now, as of this afternoon, the two super-high-quality tickets to Cirque du Soleil&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cirquedusoleil.com\/CirqueDuSoleil\/en\/showstickets\/kooza\/intro\/intro.htm\">Kooza<\/a><\/i> that I bought on impulse Friday morning.<br \/>\nIt was the perfect thing at the perfect time &#150; I&#8217;ve been having a rough go of it at work for the last week or two due to the usual start-of-semester shenanigans (believe me, it&#8217;s even worse for the staff than it is for the students, although perhaps not as bad as it is for the actual full-fledged faculty), so when I spotted a Cirque clown on the cover of this month&#8217;s WHERE BOSTON in the lobby of the Marriott Hotel in Kendall Square, I grabbed it up and flipped to the article about how Cirque was opening up in town <i>this weekend.<\/i>  I jumped on the website and discovered two <i>amazing<\/i> tickets for the 5PM Sunday show (five rows back, more-or-less center stage!) and I nabbed &#8217;em.  Pricey as the dickens, but worth every penny.<br \/>\nThe show was amazing.  Wheel of Death!  Confetti cannon!  Contortionists (and <i>Jesus<\/i> are the contortionists impressive when you&#8217;re sitting right up close).  Wheel of Death!  High-wire acts with a <i>bicycle!<\/i>  An acrobat balancing himself on a chair <i>ten stories tall!<\/I>  Wheel of Death!  Thus usual Cirque array of clowning around!  Really, really great music! And did I mention the freaking <i>Wheel of Death?<\/i><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re in Boston and can spare the scratch, get yourself down to the Expo Center before October 10 or thereabouts.  You&#8217;ll be very, <i>very<\/i> glad you did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are an uncertain number of things in this world that are worth every penny you spend on them. This summer I&#8217;ve been blessed with two of them: our trip to Greece in July (especially the extra time Laura and I spent on the island of Santorini) and now, as of this afternoon, the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-qZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}