{"id":63,"date":"2003-05-03T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2003-05-03T17:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=63"},"modified":"2003-05-03T17:01:01","modified_gmt":"2003-05-03T17:01:01","slug":"fun-times-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2003\/05\/03\/fun-times-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Times 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melody, Jeff, and I revisited <a href=\"http:\/\/boston.citysearch.com\/profile\/11419837\/\">Embassy<\/a> Friday for yet another night of top-notch hip hop\/reggae\/top 40&#8217;s dance mix. This place is quickly becoming my favorite clubbing locale as both the attractive Asian crowd and mind-blowing, immersive dance music help redefine Friday-night-out for me. I did have a run-in with the bouncer that night when he told me I was dressed too casually, and almost didn&#8217;t let me in. Fortunately, after a bit of jedi mind trick, I was able to join my friends and dance the night away. It was almost a difference of night and day when comparing the experience with last friday night&#8217;s annual HST formal at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleshotel.com\/\">Charles Hotel<\/a>. Though the hor d&#8217;oeuvres (can anyone actually spell this?) and Jazz music were quite enjoyable at the beginning, the dance afterwards totally blew. The music consisted of some rather bad Latin techno\/trance stuff that wasn&#8217;t really possible to dance to. Oh, we also caught a showing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betterlucktomorrow.com\">&#8220;Better Luck Tomorrow&#8221;<\/a> last week. The movie received a lot of hype at the beginning &#8217;cause it was the first major film starring an Asian-American cast that DIDN&#8217;T feature martial arts or other cultural stereotypes. Personally, I felt it was an above-average film though certainly not groundbreaking in any way. My Asian friends from Cali did remark how much the setting of the story reminded them of home. I guess it was quite different from my childhood growing up in Brooklyn. Of course, having gone out so often recently, I&#8217;ll really need to haul ass in lab now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melody, Jeff, and I revisited Embassy Friday for yet another night of top-notch hip hop\/reggae\/top 40&#8217;s dance mix. This place is quickly becoming my favorite clubbing locale as both the attractive Asian crowd and mind-blowing, immersive dance music help redefine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2003\/05\/03\/fun-times-2\/\">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-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","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=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}