{"id":1193,"date":"2009-02-11T10:03:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T14:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2009-02-11T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T14:03:50","slug":"3654","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"365\/4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dsc_9197ps.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1194\" title=\"dsc_9197ps\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dsc_9197ps-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have collected Disney movies since I was a teenager.\u00a0 It seemed strange then to be paying $25-$30 for cartoons&#8230;even to me.\u00a0 But no matter.\u00a0 I kept at it and acquired quite a collection &#8211;\u00a0albeit a fairly useless collection for a high school\/university student.<\/p>\n<p>And then VCRs were replaced by DVD players and I was a little bit screwed.\u00a0 My obsolete VHS tapes sat in an unpacked box through our last two moves collecting dust.<\/p>\n<p>But then we insitututed Friday &#8216;movie night&#8217; at our house.\u00a0 We have pizza, pop popcorn and picnic in front of the TV.\u00a0 The movie is always Jaia&#8217;s choice.\u00a0 As you can imagine, the first few weeks we were forced into watching yet another episode of Dora.\u00a0 Then it changed to &#8220;Mermaid&#8221; (<em>The Little Mermaid<\/em>).\u00a0 Lately, <em>Madagascar<\/em>.\u00a0 Thankfully, now that our playroom is ready &#8211; and equipped with a fully functional TV and VCR &#8211; we\u00a0suddenly have more choice for our Friday night flick selection.\u00a0 My movies and all the money I spent on them over the years are finally not for naught.\u00a0 Having a little one to share them with makes it all worth every penny.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bean&#8217;s latest faves (so far) are <em>The Fox and the Hound<\/em> and <em>101 Dalmations<\/em>.\u00a0 Excellent choices.\u00a0 I&#8217;m betting she&#8217;ll love <em>Lady and the Tramp <\/em>too<em>, <\/em>just like her mama did (still does).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have collected Disney movies since I was a teenager.\u00a0 It seemed strange then to be paying $25-$30 for cartoons&#8230;even to me.\u00a0 But no matter.\u00a0 I kept at it and acquired quite a collection &#8211;\u00a0albeit a fairly useless collection for a high school\/university student. And then VCRs were replaced by DVD players and I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[26,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}