{"id":2790,"date":"2012-08-01T18:54:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T22:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2012-08-01T19:02:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T23:02:27","slug":"amelie-in-the-empty-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/amelie-in-the-empty-lot","title":{"rendered":"Amelie In The Empty Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_0663.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2793\" title=\"img_0663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_0663.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_0663.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_0663-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pleasant trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crystal_Beach,_Ontario\"title=\"They used to pass booze through here, during prohibition.\" >Crystal Beach<\/a>, visiting a friend&#8217;s cottage, was followed by a welcome surprise.<\/p>\n<p>As we walked up to my loft, I could hear French being spoken through loudspeakers.\u00a0 I ducked through a hole in the fence and saw a few dozen people in lawn-chairs watching Amelie on a huge inflatable screen.\u00a0 The strings of lights overhead were also a new addition to this vacant lot that, only a few days before, had tall grass and garbage strewn about.<\/p>\n<p>We set down a blanket and watched the rest of the movie, having missed the first 15 minutes (you can&#8217;t have everything).<\/p>\n<p>And I wasn&#8217;t wearing my glasses&#8230; yet I could still read the subtitles&#8230;\u00a0 for about 1\/2 of it&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 when I wasn&#8217;t playing with the contact juggling ball or taking photos.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_0643.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2794 alignnone\" title=\"img_0643\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_0643-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_06621.jpg\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2796\" title=\"img_0662\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_06621-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_0635.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2797\" title=\"img_0635\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/img_0635-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pleasant trip to Crystal Beach, visiting a friend&#8217;s cottage, was followed by a welcome surprise. As we walked up to my loft, I could hear French being spoken through loudspeakers.\u00a0 I ducked through a hole in the fence and saw a few dozen people in lawn-chairs watching Amelie on a huge inflatable screen.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[606,609,607,605,608,325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2802,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}