{"id":161,"date":"2005-05-08T06:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-08T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/08\/siff\/"},"modified":"2007-05-05T16:06:05","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T00:06:05","slug":"siff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/08\/siff\/","title":{"rendered":"SIFF!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlefilm.org\/festival\/\">SIFF<\/a> season! I had such a good time last year that I&#8217;m very excited it&#8217;s that time again. Schedules came out on Thursday, and that day I sat down with pens and highlighters to try to choose what films to see.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe process is very instinctive (and random). I&#8217;m basing my choices solely on the paragraph-long blurbs in the festival program, which is pleasantly limiting and challenging. It&#8217;s a lot like a puzzle, to try to figure out the most optimal viewing schedule based on the movies you REALLY want to see, and the movies you &#8220;kinda&#8221; want to see.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trumba.com\/calendars\/katesiff\">schedule I&#8217;ve come up with<\/a>. I&#8217;ll be buying my tickets tomorrow. If you&#8217;re interested in joining me for any of these, let me know.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAlso, I&#8217;m thinking about trying the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlefilm.org\/festival\/news\/detail.aspx?NID=39&amp;FID=5&amp;year=2005\">Secret Festival<\/a> this year. Any advice? Is it worth it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s SIFF season! I had such a good time last year that I&#8217;m very excited it&#8217;s that time again. Schedules came out on Thursday, and that day I sat down with pens and highlighters to try to choose what films to see. &nbsp; The process is very instinctive (and random). I&#8217;m basing my choices solely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}