{"id":8655,"date":"2014-05-22T11:44:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T15:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=8655"},"modified":"2014-05-28T17:38:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T21:38:37","slug":"randomthoughts-05222014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/22\/randomthoughts-05222014\/","title":{"rendered":"RandomThoughts! (5\/22\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re debuting a quickie type of article today. If you remember Larry King&#8217;s column from USA Today, this feature will sort of be like that. And if you do remember that, then you&#8217;re old. Anything&#8217;s fair game. News, sports, weather, opinion, local, regional, world&#8230; it&#8217;s just a collection of RandomThoughts. Let&#8217;s get it started.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my RandomThoughts for Thursday, May 22nd.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s something seriously messed up with that fatal wreck at South Boston&#8217;s Walmart. SUV&#8217;s don&#8217;t normally fly through the parking lot, bounce of two cars, hit a light pole and flip over. How bizarre.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.godanriver.com\/entertainment_lifestyles\/lifestyles\/slimy-critters-on-the-riverwalk-trail\/article_53adf482-dd24-11e3-a5c6-001a4bcf6878.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Hoffman&#8217;s Riverwalk Trail stories in the Danville Register &amp; Bee<\/a> are amazingly wonderful to read.<\/li>\n<li>Martinsville Speedway hosts the region&#8217;s best July 4th celebration and this year&#8217;s is going to be even bigger. It&#8217;ll be held on Thursday, July 3rd (huh?) and will open up at 3PM, an hour earlier than last year. It&#8217;s definitely the place to be, and it&#8217;s all free to the public.<\/li>\n<li>I have no idea how Danville&#8217;s Old Dutch Supermarkets have stayed in business this long. I can handle the limited selection but if something you want isn&#8217;t on sale, the regular prices are way higher than any other grocery store in town.<\/li>\n<li>39 days until you can get a watermelon milkshake from Cookout, but who&#8217;s counting?<\/li>\n<li>Until the past weekend, I didn&#8217;t know the old Ballou Park post office is now a Masonic Lodge. It looks quite creepy.<\/li>\n<li>Boom goes the old JC Penney outlet store in Martinsville&#8217;s Liberty Fair Mall. Boom goes Liberty Fair Mall after that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s your RandomThoughts of the day!<\/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>We&#8217;re debuting a quickie type of article today. 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