{"id":3508,"date":"2009-07-09T18:30:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T22:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2009-07-09T18:30:38","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T22:30:38","slug":"thursday-various-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3508","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" \"size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When mass hysteria and facts clash: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/news\/show\/134038.html\">The Top 10 Most Absurd <i>Time<\/i> Covers of The Past 40 Years<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>John Scalzi on <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2009\/06\/24\/why-new-novelists-are-kinda-old\/\">Why New Novelists Are Kinda Old, or, Hey, Publishing is Slow<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Farrah Fawcett was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/archives\/2009_06.php#014680\">friends with Ayn Rand<\/a>. Bo Derek &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/20\/us\/20ventura.html\">is a really good friend&#8221; of Ray Bradbury<\/a>. I don&#8217;t really have a point; I&#8217;m just amused by the unlikeliness of the pairings.<\/li>\n<li>Did you know that the title for one of Winston Churchill&#8217;s most famous titles, <i>While England Slept<\/i>, was actually based <a href=\"http:\/\/garydexter.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/110-while-england-slept-by-winston.html\">on a publishing mistake<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>And finally, while I think the idea of a <i>Goonies<\/i> sequel is probably a bad idea, Chris Columbus <a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/06\/why-theres-still-hope-for.php\">raises an interesting point<\/a> as to why:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps the biggest hurdle for a <i>Goonies 2<\/i> would be believing that modern kids would play outside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s possible anymore,&#8221; Columbus said. &#8220;Maybe if all the parents in the new <i>Goonie<\/i> movie forbid their kids to play on the Internet, that&#8217;s gotta be the plot. You can&#8217;t go anywhere near a computer or cell phone. I guess the adventures are online.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16,14,37,9,11,10,12],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-pop-culture","tag-publishing","tag-various","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508"}],"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=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}