{"id":10548,"date":"2013-06-14T23:31:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T03:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10548"},"modified":"2013-06-14T23:31:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T03:31:24","slug":"friday-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10548","title":{"rendered":"Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tucker continues to heal, although I can’t say he seems to be enjoying it, much less the collar he still has to wear all the time. There’s no word yet on how many days he’ll have to continue wearing it, though he returns to the vet tomorrow morning to evaluate his progress and the stitches. The estimate on their removal was 10-14 days, but I suspect we’ll know more tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, life continues pretty much as normal. Yesterday, I (finally) finished reading Stephen King’s Under the Dome<\/i>, which is a lot of fun, and above all else a compelling read. It is, of course, a very long<\/i> book, and took me something like a month to get through. (I get most of my reading done on my daily commute, which only adds up to about six hours a week. Though that’s not a hard and fast rule, and I hope to do more reading on the weekends now that I have half a year off from reading Kaleidotrope<\/a> submissions.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I really liked the book. I’m much less enthusiastic about the TV miniseries now that I’ve actually seen the trailer for it<\/a>, since it looks like they’ve taken a lot<\/i> of liberties with the novel. That said, King himself seems quite pleased with it. Of course, that<\/i> said, King also seemed quite pleased with the television version of The Shining<\/i> starring Steven Weber and Rebecca De Mornay…<\/p>\n

Without venturing into spoilers too much, here’s one particular quote I highlighted in my reading:<\/p>\n

America’s two great specialities are demagogues and rock and roll, and we’ve all heard plenty of both in our time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I feel like I want to read a lot more King now…but I also think maybe I should take a break with something a lot shorter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tucker continues to heal, although I can’t say he seems to be enjoying it, much less the collar he still has to wear all the time. There’s no word yet on how many days he’ll have to continue wearing it, though he returns to the vet tomorrow morning to evaluate his progress and the stitches. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16,28],"class_list":["post-10548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10549,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10548\/revisions\/10549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}