{"id":11163,"date":"2014-03-15T22:54:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T02:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11163"},"modified":"2014-03-16T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T15:18:00","slug":"saturday-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=11163","title":{"rendered":"Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let’s pretend this past week was just so<\/i> exciting that I couldn’t even bring myself to write about it, and that’s<\/i> why I haven’t posted much of anything here in a week. That seems better than just admitting that it was a boring one-day-pretty-much-like-the-last kind of week.<\/p>\n

Even today, there wasn’t much to report. The weather turned nice again — windy, but not the slap in the face of winter’s return we had on Thursday and Friday. There was snow in the forecast for Monday, last I heard, but I think most of what hobbled us in February has finally melted.<\/p>\n

I bought my plane tickets for my trip in September to Canada and the Banff Centre. Still, it’ll be another half a year before I use them.<\/p>\n

This evening, I watched a couple of movies. I started with Grave of the Fireflies<\/i>, a late-’80s anime set near the end of World War II. It’s a beautiful film, although very sad, and after it I needed something of a pick-me-up. So naturally I turned to the downbeat folk music story Inside Llewyn Davis<\/i>. (The original thought had been 12 Years a Slave<\/i>, but maybe not this week.) I liked the movie a lot — it’s not really a downer — but I didn’t quite love every bit of it. I’d be tempted to call it “lesser Coen Brothers,” if even their “lesser” movies didn’t have such style and skill. (See The Ladykillers<\/i> or Intolerable Cruelty<\/i>, for instance.)<\/p>\n

All in all, a pair of very good movies.<\/p>\n

And all in all, while not a super exciting day — I did a little editing, went for a walk, listened to a podcast — a pretty good day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s pretend this past week was just so exciting that I couldn’t even bring myself to write about it, and that’s why I haven’t posted much of anything here in a week. That seems better than just admitting that it was a boring one-day-pretty-much-like-the-last kind of week. Even today, there wasn’t much to report. The … 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":[14,28,114],"class_list":["post-11163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movies","tag-personal","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163"}],"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=11163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11166,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11163\/revisions\/11166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}