{"id":1742,"date":"2008-12-03T07:35:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T23:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2008-12-03T07:35:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T23:35:40","slug":"tissue-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/12\/03\/tissue-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Tissue Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1799\" title=\"blog-walk-to-remember\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/blog-walk-to-remember.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"421\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of those little things that required adjustment in a marriage is one&#8217;s individual preferences for movies. Personally, I enjoy movies themed around the indomitable human spirit the most, e.g. movies like Apollo 13 or TV series like Band of Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Ling on the other hand prefers movies that don&#8217;t involve a lot of swearing, exploding things or flesh-consuming critters from outer space. Now and then whenever we&#8217;re both free on a weekend afternoon, she&#8217;d prompt me to dig into our library of DVD movies and find a romantic movie. It must be a girl thing. So chick flicks like Enchanted, Just Like Heaven, Sweet Alabama, 27 Dresses &#8211; all those are her thing.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as far as those romantic movies are concerned though, there&#8217;s a bunch I still haven&#8217;t dug out to watch with her. For example, the three movies based on books by Nicholas Sparks. He&#8217;s a current American author who&#8217;s written a bunch of bestseller movies, several of which are of the love + tradegy type. And everyone of those three movie adaptions already released are tearjerkers. There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0139462\/\">Message in a Bottle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0332280\/\">The Notebook<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0281358\/\">A Walk to Remember<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s that? Well, bluntly put&#8230; I don&#8217;t think I can handle a sobbing woman who&#8217;s crying her eyes out because the two lovers on the screen can never be together because of an accident \/ illness \/ whatever and take yer pick.<\/p>\n<p>Hey I know what I&#8217;ll do. I&#8217;ll just dig out the DVDs and put them on the TV cabinet. Ling is enjoying part of her year-end break now, so she can watch them all without me LOL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of those little things that required adjustment in a marriage is one&#8217;s individual preferences for movies. Personally, I enjoy movies themed around the indomitable human spirit the most, e.g. movies like Apollo 13 or TV series like Band of<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/12\/03\/tissue-box\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Tissue Box<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-entertainment","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-10-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}