{"id":26,"date":"2008-02-24T23:51:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T07:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2008-02-25T00:21:15","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T08:21:15","slug":"renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a very strong temptation to try to catch up with the past&#8230; oh&#8230; four months of blog silence.\u00a0\u00a0When you line it all up, I feel like I&#8217;ve been\u00a0enjoying my\u00a0very own\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Renaissance\">renaissance<\/a>&#8230; if only it were that grand, but it&#8217;s still pretty nice.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Skiing<\/strong>: OMG fun.\u00a0 And having invested a small fortune in gear, it had better be.\u00a0 But being this close to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summitatsnoqualmie.com\/\">pretty good snow <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whistlerblackcomb.com\">really, really good snow<\/a>\u00a0it would be unacceptable not to take advantage of it.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t half bad for a guy raised in the midwest when the season started, but after a lot of practice and a weekend enjoying the best. powder. ever. in Whistler I&#8217;m feel&#8217;n pretty damn good.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;ve found people to ski with&#8230; in particular, people who push me to try new things and get better.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lifting<\/strong>: while it&#8217;s been going well, it&#8217;s been boring boring boring\u00a0not power lifting anymore.\u00a0 I miss Illini Powerlifting.\u00a0 I miss the camaraderie.\u00a0\u00a0I need goals and to be pushed, which leads me to&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boxing<\/strong> : it&#8217;s a new thing that I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m going to stick with, but for now, it&#8217;s really damn exciting.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve found an awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cappysgym.com\/index.html\">boxing gym <\/a>close to home and went for my first lesson this weekend.\u00a0 Is it wrong to enjoy getting hit?\u00a0 Does that say something about me?\u00a0 One thing&#8217;s for damn sure, I need to learn how to jump rope&#8230;\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t done that since I was 7 and my coordination hasn&#8217;t improved much since then.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Opera<\/strong> : by far, one of the coolest new things I&#8217;ve experienced as of late.\u00a0 We (a handful of friends) went to see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tosca\">Tosca.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0Everyone dies.\u00a0 Sorry for the spoiler.\u00a0 I have to say that there are some great lines that came out of it&#8230; one of the best ones, delivered by the skeeziest of all evil characters ever crafted (Scarpia) as he tries to seduce (essentially, rape) the heroine&#8230; &#8220;you make me forget God&#8221;.\u00a0 Somehow the setting and\u00a0the pure evil that flowed from the man just made that line so laced with crazed-obsession in the guise of love that it was almost laughable.\u00a0 But nothing compares with the heroine&#8217;s declaration &#8220;<em>Questo \u00e8 il bacio di Tosca&#8221; <\/em>\u2013 &#8220;This is Tosca&#8217;s kiss&#8221; as she repeatedly stabs the evil Scarpia.\u00a0 Ah, tragedy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Valentine&#8217;s Bash<\/strong>: what do you get when you get an audience of angstful, scorned lovers with objects of affection that have lost their meaning?\u00a0\u00a0And let&#8217;s say you add\u00a0in some liquid\u00a0nitrogen, a sledge hammer, a machete,\u00a0tar &amp; feathers, and a\u00a0blow torch??\u00a0 You get an evening of entertainment wallowing in the pain and suffering of others\u00a0that is much worse than anything you&#8217;ve ever been though!\u00a0 The basic premise is to get on stage, tell your harrowing story, and summarily destroy your (hopefully) last reminder of your love lost.\u00a0 The things that were destroyed, and the stories that were told, were unreal.\u00a0 For example, imagine your boyfriend leaving for Africa and bringing you back a wonderful lil trinket of his love&#8230; and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_clap\">the clap<\/a>!\u00a0Letters were burned, pictures were pissed on (yes, literally), dildos were frozen and shattered&#8230; the list goes on and on.\u00a0 Best damn Valentine&#8217;s day ever.\u00a0 And, no, I didn&#8217;t bring anything of my own&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s more that I&#8217;m forgetting, but those are some of the more interesting snippits.<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230; and I&#8217;ve posted new pics:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/kmwoley\">http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/kmwoley<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a very strong temptation to try to catch up with the past&#8230; oh&#8230; four months of blog silence.\u00a0\u00a0When you line it all up, I feel like I&#8217;ve been\u00a0enjoying my\u00a0very own\u00a0renaissance&#8230; if only it were that grand, but it&#8217;s still pretty nice. Skiing: OMG fun.\u00a0 And having invested a small fortune in gear, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/renaissance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Renaissance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16,357,14,15],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-boxing","tag-lifting","tag-renaissance","tag-skiing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmwoley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}