{"id":5918,"date":"2011-01-30T22:21:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T03:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5918"},"modified":"2011-01-30T22:21:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T03:21:04","slug":"all-aboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5918","title":{"rendered":"All aboard!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I spent the weekend in Maryland, celebrating my sister’s 30th birthday, which is later this week. We basically repeated our plans from last year<\/a>, albeit with a little more success, thanks to somewhat more cooperative weather. My parents and I drove there, then met my sister and her husband for brunch, and then we split up, with my sister and my mother going clothes shopping — my sister’s choice, which would not have been mine — and we three men visiting the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I took some photos there<\/a>, if you’re interested. It was actually really interesting, although if you visit, I can’t recommend the actual train rides, at least not the version we experienced. It was basically just a slow twenty minute trip out, then back, with not a whole lot to see and just a little old-timey music and narration about the railway to keep you amused. (Then again, we were on the same car as a seven-year-old boy celebrating his birthday, and he<\/i> seemed to be enjoying it.)<\/p>\n

Afterward, we had enough time for the three of us to see The Fighter<\/a>, in the theater adjoining the restaurant where we had dinner. It’s really quite good, and I think Christian Bale may now be my favorite for this year’s Oscar. <\/p>\n

Today, we met for breakfast, then went back to my sister’s house to give her presents. Then we drove home. It was a good weekend, but I’m pretty astounded that it’s over already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent the weekend in Maryland, celebrating my sister’s 30th birthday, which is later this week. We basically repeated our plans from last year, albeit with a little more success, thanks to somewhat more cooperative weather. My parents and I drove there, then met my sister and her husband for brunch, and then we split … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14,184,28,75],"class_list":["post-5918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies","tag-museums","tag-personal","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}