{"id":7687,"date":"2018-01-19T01:26:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T06:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=7687"},"modified":"2018-01-19T05:53:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T10:53:39","slug":"lighter-musical-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=7687","title":{"rendered":"lighter, musical, and snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/27995741949\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Treeless\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4656\/27995741949_d3b9dd854d.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Treeless\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Three beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n<p>1. It is obvious how much later the sun is setting than it was a month ago. <\/p>\n<p>2. Monday we had date night and went to see <em>The Greatest Showman<\/em>, which did not disappoint. The story is a highly fictionalized retelling of portions of P.T. Barnum&#8217;s life set to song and dance. The soundtrack is remarkably catchy, and is one part <em>Hamilton<\/em> and one part <em>La La Land<\/em>. I have listened to it several times on YouTube this week because it&#8217;s stuck in my head and we haven&#8217;t had a chance to buy it yet. Sure, as the daughter of a Bridgeport native, I would have liked to have seen Barnum&#8217;s hometown (he was even mayor for a while!) mentioned, and it felt weird to learn afterwards (as I researched fact from fiction) that the actress playing opera singer Jenny Lind didn&#8217;t do her own singing), but those are relatively small quibbles. This big top show is meant for the big screen, so be sure to catch it in the theater if you can.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/25902147228\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"A Dusting\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4676\/25902147228_10a1a9dbc8.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"A Dusting\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>3. D.C. received a dusting of snow Wednesday morning, just enough to give the world a very pretty facade in the overnight hours when I went to salt our steps.  <\/p>\n<p>How about you? What&#8217;s been beautiful in your world lately? (You can see more Three on Thursday lists at <a href=\"http:\/\/caroleknits.net\/2018\/01\/18\/three-on-thursday-9\/\">Carole&#8217;s<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three beautiful things from my past week: 1. It is obvious how much later the sun is setting than it was a month ago. 2. 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