{"id":19326,"date":"2017-11-04T20:20:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T00:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=19326"},"modified":"2017-11-04T20:25:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T00:25:30","slug":"city-on-a-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=19326","title":{"rendered":"City on a hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Countess and I went to see a movie today at a unique movie theater in the far South part of Charlotte called Ballantyne. After the movie, we went out on a third story balcony that circles the lobby with a very interesting view facing to the North toward uptown.<\/p>\n

My initial reaction was the scene in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy and her friends catch the glimpse of the Emerald City in the distance.<\/p>\n

First the panorama view of the balcony:  (click for a clearer image)<\/p>\n

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And the long distance view of \u201cuptown\u201d in the haze<\/p>\n

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The movie we saw was \u201cVictoria and Abdul\u201d, a story about Queen Victoria in her final years in the late 1800s befriending a servant from India. She realizes belatedly that he was a Muslim and married, and then defends him from attacks by the British aristocracy who view him as a threat to the established order.<\/p>\n

A couple of years ago, I telegraphed that I had decided I needed to get a life and the consequence could be the streaming radio guide might be tossed overboard. So here we are – I have a wife who I Love intensely and we do things together more important than worrying about Hillary Clinton. I have filed the paperwork for social security retirement, something I never expected to happen, and have some reason to think I might make it to Medicare age. This was a very important and correct decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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