{"id":3556,"date":"2009-08-31T18:30:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T22:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2009-08-31T18:30:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T22:30:26","slug":"monday-various-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3556","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/steve-bissette,30751\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_books\">Steve Bissette on horror<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Horror is one of the few genres\u00e2\u20ac\u201dromance and comedy are the other two that come to mind\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all emotion-driven. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a rational genre, like science fiction is. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s irrational by nature. And it is capable of exploring all aspects of human experience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">The rest of the interview is pretty interesting, too.<\/li>\n<li>I find it tough to mourn the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1912419,00.html\">death of cursive handwriting<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/aug\/11\/brazil-wallace-souza-police-investigation\">Brazil TV host turned politician &#8216;ordered killings to boost ratings&#8217;<\/a>. American TV executives are no doubt furiously taking notes. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/special\/ten-mysteries-of-you\">Ten things we don&#8217;t understand about humans<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, a game: <a href=\"http:\/\/armorgames.com\/play\/4309\/this-is-the-only-level\">This is the Only Level<\/a>. (Also of interest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/raitendo\/you-only-live-once\">You Only Live Once<\/a>.) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Bissette on horror: Horror is one of the few genres\u00e2\u20ac\u201dromance and comedy are the other two that come to mind\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all emotion-driven. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a rational genre, like science fiction is. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s irrational by nature. And it is capable of exploring all aspects of human experience. The rest of the interview is pretty interesting, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3556\">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":[20,35,49,38,17],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-comics","tag-games","tag-school","tag-science","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556"}],"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=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}