{"id":1201,"date":"2023-07-27T00:27:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T00:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2023-07-28T00:28:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T00:28:08","slug":"bang-the-drum-but-quickly-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=1201","title":{"rendered":"Bang the Drum, But Quickly This Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just saw \u201cSound of Freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shattered my cold and shriveled black heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I get why Hollyweird doesn&#8217;t like it.  Too plausible\/likely\/all the yepnope.  Keep those babies close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Really scary?\u00a0 GOD wanted me to see this film today.\u00a0 To recap the day&#8217;s events \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesty-day went and got takeout (diet what? where?) and when I hit the power window button the glass fell into the door with a chunk.\u00a0 No shatter, which is a good thing, but the little motor just whirred and I got to experience the great +100\u00b0 outdoors.\u00a0 Blech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fun little feature of that adventure \u2026 when the glass dropped, it jammed the latch open so the door wouldn\u2019t close.\u00a0 Had to drive home holding it shut from the outside.\u00a0 Sheetmetal in the summertime is not that hot, not really.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyhoo, sought out the Lists of Craig, found a guy, the guy said he\u2019d come out next day, guy actually came out next day, told me expensive news (not as much AS A BRAND NEW TRUCK) so getting that fixed, but here\u2019s the kicker \u2026 since COVID closed the world, movie theatres want folks to buy tickets and choose seats (like it\u2019s the opera or Shen Yun or monster trucks or something) so I did that Tuesday, for a one o\u2019clock movie on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Window died Wednesday night.\u00a0 Wednesday night, guy says he\u2019ll come Thursday between 10 and noon.\u00a0 Whelp, methinks, there goes the movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But wait!&nbsp; There\u2019s more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guy not only fixes the window to stay up but fixes the door to stay closed.\u00a0<br>And what time did he finish?\u00a0 12:53p.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I head to the movie, thinking maybe miss first couple of minutes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Half and theKid call, currently on cross-country vacay with the MIL, so I must speak.&nbsp;<br>Bust a U, heading home, gotta talk to my people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014<em>I have a family-sized hole in my gut at the moment but we\u2019re not going to talk about that.<\/em>\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s 1:10p.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The family then hangs up \u2026 too much static on the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bust another U, back to the movies.\u00a0 Get there, 1:25p.\u00a0 Stand in line to get overpriced everything for noshing during the show.\u00a0 An adult day care is having an outing in front of me, and I\u2019m stuck behind them at the register.\u00a0 Ah well, patience = virtue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get the noshings, get my assigned seat.&nbsp; One single commercial, then the movie starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Really?&nbsp; GOD cares?&nbsp; About this?&nbsp; Why yes, yes he does.&nbsp; {<em>Matthew 10:29-30<\/em>}<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tim Ballard, good all over \u2018n up in you.&nbsp; Got a woman priced above rubies, and blessed with many arrows in your quiver, oh yes you do, oh yes you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGOD\u2019s children are not for sale.\u201d&nbsp; No, they are not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And methinks man (and woman) needs a reminder of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just saw \u201cSound of Freedom.\u201d Shattered my cold and shriveled black heart. I get why Hollyweird doesn&#8217;t like it. Too plausible\/likely\/all the yepnope. Keep those babies close. Really scary?\u00a0 GOD wanted me to see this film today.\u00a0 To recap the day&#8217;s events \u2026 Yesty-day went and got takeout (diet what? where?) and when I hit &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=1201\" class=\"more-link\">Read the full post &rarr;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Bang the Drum, But Quickly This Time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-proof-of-god"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}