{"id":3361,"date":"2009-03-17T17:30:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T22:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2009-03-17T16:04:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T21:04:47","slug":"tuesday-various-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3361","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Reading <a href=\"http:\/\/thefix-online.com\/features\/keeping-the-writer-alive\/\">this essay<\/a> about writing retreats and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lectio.ca\/\">Heather&#8217;s posts<\/a> about her ongoing writing residency at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banffcentre.ca\/\">the Banff Centre<\/a>&#8230;I have to say, I&#8217;m more than a tiny bit jealous.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Man, I wish Steve Martin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/steve-martin-funds-banned-high-school-play,25152\/\">had helped pay<\/a> for <em>my<\/em> high school&#8217;s plays!<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Okay, that&#8217;s not entirely true. I never actually <em>went<\/em> to any of my high school&#8217;s plays. I did see some really decent productions of <em>Grease<\/em> and <em>Damn Yankees<\/em> when I was in junior high, though.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Seriously, the head of the (elected) Republican party doesn&#8217;t even know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/03\/16\/steeles-tour-de-force-com_n_175317.html\">why Greenland is <em>called<\/em> Greenland<\/a>. This goes beyond the global warming debate; this is fifth grade social studies he&#8217;s failing there.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>Edgar Allen Poe to publishers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5iZnOrQaXkeleIkcsVAmNNZpn2N3wD96NBELG0\">Sorry for being such a drunk<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading this essay about writing retreats and Heather&#8217;s posts about her ongoing writing residency at the Banff Centre&#8230;I have to say, I&#8217;m more than a tiny bit jealous. Man, I wish Steve Martin had helped pay for my high school&#8217;s plays! Okay, that&#8217;s not entirely true. I never actually went to any of my high &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3361\">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":[],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361"}],"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=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}