{"id":76,"date":"2007-01-14T17:01:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-14T17:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/14\/the-pursuit-of-happyness\/"},"modified":"2007-01-14T17:01:58","modified_gmt":"2007-01-14T17:01:58","slug":"the-pursuit-of-happyness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/14\/the-pursuit-of-happyness\/","title":{"rendered":"The pursuit of happyness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a really wonderful afternoon\/evening yesterday. My friend Richard and his wife Paula came to visit me. I&#8217;ve known Rich since I was around 11 years old, and we&#8217;ve been getting in and out of trouble together for almost twenty years. We spent the late afternoon at my place catching up since we havent seen each other in almost a year, we spent a long time talking, reminiscing and generally having a laugh ( mostly at my expense! \ud83d\ude09 &#8211; oh well some things never change :p ).<\/p>\n<p>Later in the evening we decided to go out and grab a bite to eat and then catch a movie. Paula wanted to watch the new Will Smith movie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.com\/movies\/thepursuitofhappyness\/\">The pursuit of happyness<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonypictures.com\/movies\/thepursuitofhappyness\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/8\/81\/Poster-pursuithappyness.jpg\/200px-Poster-pursuithappyness.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nImage source: Wikipedia<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an incredibly moving story and Smith&#8217;s performance as Chris Gardner is absolutely brilliant. I dont really want to talk about what happens in the movie so all I&#8217;ll say is its definitly definitly worth watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a really wonderful afternoon\/evening yesterday. My friend Richard and his wife Paula came to visit me. I&#8217;ve known Rich since I was around 11 years old, and we&#8217;ve been getting in and out of trouble together for almost twenty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/14\/the-pursuit-of-happyness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[401,382],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-personal","tag-movie","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}