{"id":10236,"date":"2014-09-06T23:09:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T03:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=10236"},"modified":"2014-09-06T23:11:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T03:11:27","slug":"randomthoughts-962014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/06\/randomthoughts-962014\/","title":{"rendered":"RandomThoughts! (9\/6\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My goodness. It&#8217;s been a very long time since we thought randomly. We&#8217;ll fix that now.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, apologies for being so late with today&#8217;s article flow. We&#8217;ve upgraded SouthsideCentral to the new WordPress 4.0 and it took a while to work out the bugs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Big Board, please!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m finding it quite strange that one of my commenters who&#8217;s given me a hard time (mainly about criticism of the school system) is making their postings from Greensboro. Who in Greensboro has such knowledge of the school system and such dislike for me &amp; SouthsideCentral? Also, it seems like two distinct writing styles from two different people using the same IP address. Bizarre. Hmm.<\/li>\n<li>Anyway&#8230; Is everything closing on the east end of Riverside Drive? Short Sugars, Libby Hill, Philly Cheesesteaks and now it seems that the used car lot (Motley&#8217;s?) on the corner of Riverside Drive &amp; Arnett Blvd. has been emptied out.<\/li>\n<li>Is Mama Possum&#8217;s open past 5 PM?<\/li>\n<li>Every time I go into the Walgreens on Piney Forest Rd, there are less than two customers in the store. Anybody else have a different experience?<\/li>\n<li>The traffic islands at that Walgreens\/CVS\/McDonald&#8217;s\/Wendy&#8217;s intersection make drivers quite confused on how to get into those businesses.<\/li>\n<li>Is anybody except the party faithful even caring about the 5th District US Congress election?<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, July 1st, 2015. Watermelon milkshakes will be back at Cookout. Those Cookout <strong>(CENSORED)<\/strong> ran out of watermelon two days early this year.<\/li>\n<li>Fall Festivals are starting to roll. Eden&#8217;s RiverFest on September 19th &amp; 20th is the tops in the region.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of that, anybody heard anything about Danville&#8217;s River District Festival? Me neither.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s some RandomThoughts. 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