{"id":297,"date":"2003-12-07T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/word_press\/?p=297"},"modified":"2003-12-07T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-08T04:25:00","slug":"good-grief-charlie-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/good-grief-charlie-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Grief Charlie Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/120703e.jpg','','width=1000,height=668')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/120703e.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=700 border=\"1\"<\/a\/><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p>Being across the street from one of the largest shopping destinations in L.A. has its pluses and minuses. During the year it&#8217;s a blessing as the Farmer&#8217;s Market, Barnes and Nobles, Whole Foods, and the Pacific Theaters are all within walking distance and quite manageable. But, before the last belch of some skanky relative&#8217;s Thanksgiving stuffing reaches your nose, it turns into an all out maddening chaos. The Farmer&#8217;s Market becomes a grey haired gladiator brawl, the 14 screen theater makes you appreciate the 200 seat art house showing &#8220;Harold and Maude&#8221;, the book store turns into a study hall for University kids cramming for finals, and the Whole Foods grocery store looks like the food relief deliveries in Somalia. From now until Jan. 2nd I will only leave the house for work and emergency purposes. Oh, and &#8220;Return of the King next week. I did venture out to see the Mr. Bubble &#8220;snow fall&#8221; [<\/a><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/120703a.mov')\">LINK<\/a>] at The Grove tonight. Every night at 7:00pm they shoot fake snow in the form of small bubbles from the rooftops to create a wintery holiday vibe. Which is only applicable if you&#8217;re from a fairly northern hemisphere country. Santa was there taking orders from the kiddies. &#8220;Buddy the elf, what&#8217;s your favorite color?&#8221; [<a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/progressive.stream.aol.com\/newline\/gl\/newline\/trailers\/elf\/Elf-100-FF_dl.mov',240,195)\">VIDEO LINK<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/120703b.jpg','','width=525,height=700')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/120703b.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=\"216\" border=\"1\"\/><\/a> <a HREF=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/120703d.jpg','','width=525,height=700')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/120703d.jpg\" class=alignleft  WIDTH=\"216\" border=\"1\"\/><\/a><a HREF=\"javascript:void(0)\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/120703a.jpg','','width=525,height=700')\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/120703a.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=\"216\" border=\"1\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MOCs-4N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4530,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/4530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}