{"id":166,"date":"2008-01-23T22:05:03","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T05:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/23\/sundance-tickets-are-worthless\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T22:05:03","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T05:05:03","slug":"sundance-tickets-are-worthless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/23\/sundance-tickets-are-worthless\/","title":{"rendered":"Sundance Tickets Are Worthless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are not in your seat 30 minutes prior to the start of the movie. Nevermind the fact that the tickets are paid for in advance. Hmmm, maybe they&#8217;re not up on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;q=define%3A+ticket&#038;btnG=Google+Search\">definition of a ticket<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We had tickets<\/li>\n<li>We were there before the movie began<\/li>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<li>We were told our seats had been sold to persons at the door 15 minutes prior to the movie showtime<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>When asking if we could exchange the tickets for another film that was beginning shortly (but not within 15minutes) we were told we could only stand in line and purchase a ticket with everyone else. Basically, the ticket which should entitle us to <em>something<\/em> entitled us to nothing but a belittling attendant at the front door. Hey, I guess they do get it &#8212; that <em>is<\/em> something.<\/p>\n<p>Ticket Front:<br \/>\n(where I would expect all pertinent information)<\/p>\n<div class=\"content_img\">\n<img src='https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/p1030079.JPG' alt='Baghead Ticket \u2014 Front' \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ticket Back:<br \/>\n(where I would expect advertising and legal small print)<\/p>\n<div class=\"content_img\">\n<img src='https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/p1030080.JPG' alt='Baghead Ticket \u2014 Back' \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you look closely at the back you can see it mentions that the ticket in-fact entitles you to nothing. Basically they want to sell more tickets than they have seats so they make more money. What was the theme of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sundance_Film_Festival\">Sundance<\/a> again?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the goal of the festival was to showcase what the potential of independent film could be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ahhh, now I see it. The independent films are always made by money-grubbing bastards, aren&#8217;t they?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are not in your seat 30 minutes prior to the start of the movie. Nevermind the fact that the tickets are paid for in advance. Hmmm, maybe they&#8217;re not up on the definition of a ticket:<\/p>\n<p>a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We had tickets<br \/>\nWe were there before the movie [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}