{"id":10796,"date":"2014-10-25T16:27:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T20:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=10796"},"modified":"2014-10-25T16:40:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T20:40:43","slug":"randomthoughts-10252014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/25\/randomthoughts-10252014\/","title":{"rendered":"RandomThoughts! (10\/25\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday afternoon and I&#8217;m thinking randomly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re all out of Small Boards, so I&#8217;ll take a Big Board.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Let&#8217;s start by making people mad at me. &#8220;Trunk or Treat&#8221; is a stupid-ass concept if you&#8217;re using it as a religious substitute for Halloween. They&#8217;re kids. They&#8217;re having fun. If you think that Halloween is a Satanic ritual, I can&#8217;t help you there. If the kids want to dress up like a zombie or a awesomely-cute jellyfish (Yeah Kelly!), they&#8217;re not being anti-Christian.<\/li>\n<li>Magna Vista rang up 78 points against Halifax County in high school football last night. Yay Sportsmanship!<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s quite politically incorrect to use Halifax County High School football coach Kenneth Day&#8217;s nickname. &#8220;Spook&#8221; probably wouldn&#8217;t be appreciated.<\/li>\n<li>Intersections (call center) in Altavista is closing, sending 70+ to the unemployment line. They never got close to the 250 jobs that they promised. Don&#8217;t be surprised when I tell you that they got $100K of Tobacco Commission money.<\/li>\n<li>Is there any event in Danville that Barbara Seamster isn&#8217;t either involved with or is there? We heart Barbara (and her radio stations).<\/li>\n<li>Carlbrook School is a mystery to most Southside residents (if they even know it exists), and they&#8217;re perfectly happy with that.<\/li>\n<li>Now that I&#8217;ve already voted (absentee), I can completely tune out all of these political ads.<\/li>\n<li>Remember when the Eden Mall was actually something worth going to?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s some RandomThoughts for today. More coming up on SouthsideCentral!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday afternoon and I&#8217;m thinking randomly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randomthoughts","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-2O8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8728,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/02\/randomthoughts-622014\/","url_meta":{"origin":10796,"position":0},"title":"RandomThoughts! 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What do the Spoon-billed sandpiper, the Cuban greater funnel eared bat, the West Australian underground orchid and city managers have in common? They're all on the threatened species list. Jeez. Do you think Ecomnets' latest proposal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;RandomThoughts!&quot;","block_context":{"text":"RandomThoughts!","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/featurescentral\/randomthoughts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/vpswvY4.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13237,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/04\/randomthoughts-7415\/","url_meta":{"origin":10796,"position":2},"title":"RandomThoughts! (7\/4\/15)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"July 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Maybe I should call these IndependentThoughts? Since it's July 4th? Independence Day? Get it? Fine. RandomThoughts it is. Let's haul out a Big Board for this... 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