{"id":3507,"date":"2009-07-08T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T22:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2009-07-08T16:40:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T20:40:51","slug":"wednesday-various-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3507","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<ul>   <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>There&#8217;s an interesting &#8212; albeit pretty spoiler-filled &#8212; post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkfantasy.org\/fantasy\/?p=3852\">gossip and character in the writing of Stephen King<\/a> over at <em>Fantasy Magazine<\/em>&#8216;s<em> <\/em>blog.<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m <em>surprised <\/em>the centerpiece of the George W. Bush Library <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/archives\/2009_07.php#014783\">will be a handgun<\/a>&#8230;<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>New Zealand has some weird ideas about advertising. First, there were New Zealand Air flight attendants and pilots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2009_07_05.html#017387\">in nothing but body paint<\/a>, and now a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/?p=13657\">bleeding billboard<\/a> to promote traffic safety.<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/toonlet.com\/\">Toonlet<\/a> seems like a neat idea, but I&#8217;m not so sure about the &#8220;you hereby grant to Toonlet a perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty free, worldwide license&#8221; clause in their terms of service. [<a href=\"http:\/\/scottwesterfeld.com\/blog\/\" title=\"Scott Westerfeld\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><\/p>\n<li>And finally &#8212; &#8220;It&#8217;s made of pure plotdevicinum.&#8221; I really enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/bbot.org\/badtranscript-startrek.html\">this Bad Transcript<\/a> of Star Trek, more so than the actual film, I think. [<a href=\"http:\/\/maximumverbosit.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Maximum Verbosity\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting &#8212; albeit pretty spoiler-filled &#8212; post on gossip and character in the writing of Stephen King over at Fantasy Magazine&#8216;s blog. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m surprised the centerpiece of the George W. Bush Library will be a handgun&#8230; New Zealand has some weird ideas about advertising. First, there were New Zealand Air &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3507\">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":[40,16,20,14,6,9,31,34,10,12],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-advertising","tag-books","tag-comics","tag-movies","tag-politics","tag-pop-culture","tag-sci-fi","tag-star-trek","tag-various","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507"}],"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=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}