{"id":53,"date":"2008-02-22T08:58:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T16:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/giornale\/index.php?op=ViewArticle&amp;articleId=813&amp;blogId=1"},"modified":"2008-02-22T08:58:21","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T16:58:21","slug":"spoiled-with-efficiency-marathon-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2008\/02\/22\/spoiled-with-efficiency-marathon-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoiled with efficiency; Marathon film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to give props to my fav online store, <a title=\"Amazon.com!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a>. They really are an efficient lot and find myself comparing other online retailers to this one. Granted, I pay a premium every year to get free 2-day shipping, I think I&#039;ve made up for that amount during the holiday season. I&#039;ve gotten spoiled with shopping online (from Amazon) and receiving it 2 to 3 days after I place my order. Then, I ordered a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastcoastphoto.com\/nav\/itempage.asp?itemid=7118&#038;catid=&#038;hid=\">digital camera battery charger<\/a> off another website (only cos Amazon didn&#039;t carry it) and got really nervous when I hadn&#039;t received it yet. I had to remind myself that I ordered it elsewhere and that I at least got free shipping for it. I eventually received the charger about 5 to 7 days later but thought that it still took too long to arrive. So yah, it&#039;s pretty neat to have semi-instant online shopping gratification&#8230; ^_^<\/p>\n<p>In other news, my sis and I along with our friend Irene (and her acquaintances) went to watch <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0960792\/\">Spirit of the Marathon<\/a><\/em> last night at <a href=\"http:\/\/thebridgecinema.com\/home\/home.asp\">The Bridge<\/a>. It&#039;s a documentary about the history of the marathon and the people who run it; they followed two elite athletes (i.e., professional marathon runners) and five people (from different walks of life) who were going to run the Chicago Marathon. BTW, this was <em>the <\/em>Chicago Marathon year when <em>I<\/em> ran my first marathon!! The film&#039;s subject was interesting to me (cos I run marathons!) and in a way ended up being inspiring as well. I&#039;d definitely buy the DVD and watch it when I don&#039;t feel like training &#8212; lol!!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to give props to my fav online store, Amazon.com. They really are an efficient lot and find myself comparing other online retailers to this one. Granted, I pay a premium every year to get free 2-day shipping, I think I&#039;ve made up for that amount during the holiday season. I&#039;ve gotten spoiled with  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2008\/02\/22\/spoiled-with-efficiency-marathon-film\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}