{"id":25713,"date":"2007-08-03T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/08\/03\/probably-the-most-expensive-harry-potter-viewing-ill-ever-attend\/"},"modified":"2007-08-03T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T10:00:01","slug":"probably-the-most-expensive-harry-potter-viewing-ill-ever-attend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070803-01\/?p=25713","title":{"rendered":"Probably the most expensive Harry Potter viewing I&#039;ll ever attend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I arranged to meet a friend downtown to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrypotterorderofthephoenix.com\/\"> the latest Harry Potter movie<\/a>. Traffic across the 520 bridge during the evening rush is always a disaster, so whenever I have to head into the city by myself after work, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/06\/01\/3019282.aspx\"> I usually take the bus<\/a>, and today is no exception.\n It is a sunny day, which makes for pleasant weather but horrible traffic. For some reason, traffic is significantly worse on sunny days. Short version: The bus is running behind schedule, and it&#8217;s caught up in downtown traffic, so I get off at an earlier stop than I planned and walk\/run the rest of the way. It is during this stretch of &#8220;run to the next traffic light, cross if possible, else wait for the light&#8221; that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0000EWYB4?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=tholneth-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B0000EWYB4\"> my clip-on sunglasses<\/a> must have fallen out of my pocket, because when I reach the theater, they are gone.\n And I didn&#8217;t need to have run anyway, because my friend is late, and we miss the 6:40 showing. Fortunately, that is the only glitch in the day. We grab some dinner and catch the next show.\n A few days later, I stop by the eyeglasses store to order a replacement sunglasses clip. $85. That was one expensive Harry Potter movie.<\/p>\n<p> (By the way, I liked the movie.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I arranged to meet a friend downtown to see the latest Harry Potter movie. Traffic across the 520 bridge during the evening rush is always a disaster, so whenever I have to head into the city by myself after work, I usually take the bus, and today is no exception. It is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-25713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Last week, I arranged to meet a friend downtown to see the latest Harry Potter movie. Traffic across the 520 bridge during the evening rush is always a disaster, so whenever I have to head into the city by myself after work, I usually take the bus, and today is no exception. It is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}