{"id":123,"date":"2004-07-20T03:33:36","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T03:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=123"},"modified":"2004-07-20T03:33:36","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T03:33:36","slug":"blue-men-and-shakespeare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2004\/07\/20\/blue-men-and-shakespeare\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Men and Shakespeare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueman.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1011\" title=\"2004.07.19.a\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/07\/2004.07.19.a.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeshakespeare.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1012\" title=\"2004.07.19.b\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/07\/2004.07.19.b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>With the approach of the summer weather, my past weekends have become much more eventful. Two weekends ago, Melody and I went head-to-head on the pool table at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jillians.com\">Jillian&#8217;s<\/a> for two and a half hours of 8-ball, with her coming in a close second. =P On Sunday, we headed over to Copley and got a pair of half-priced tickets to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueman.com\">Blue Man Group&#8217;s<\/a> new show through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsboston.org\/bostix.cfm\">BosTix<\/a>. Though Melody was a 3-time veteran, the experience was completely new to me, with its array of clever drum plays, humorous stunts, stunning digital animations, and a most memorable tissue paper tsunami during the finale. Even Jeff found some free time from his crazy schedule at MGH to join us for dim sum at <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.citysearch.com\/profile\/4724609?\">Chau Chow City<\/a> for Sunday lunch.<br \/>\nThis past weekend, we grabbed a couple of Vietnamese sandwiches from Chinatown and hopped over to the Commons to attend the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company&#8217;s rendition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeshakespeare.org\">Much Ado About Nothing<\/a>. The play was clever and playful (and FREE!), and even featured the casting of a real life couple as the title characters Beatrice and Benedick. We spent the rest of the weekend playing some tennis at a nearby park, and doing some shopping at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tjx.com\/about\/homegoods.html\">HomeGoods<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.target.com\">Target<\/a>, rounding out a most relaxing weekend for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the approach of the summer weather, my past weekends have become much more eventful. Two weekends ago, Melody and I went head-to-head on the pool table at Jillian&#8217;s for two and a half hours of 8-ball, with her coming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2004\/07\/20\/blue-men-and-shakespeare\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}