{"id":3570,"date":"2009-09-14T18:30:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T22:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2009-09-14T18:30:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T22:30:44","slug":"monday-various-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3570","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s one thing to meet your favorite author, but did you ever want to <i>be<\/i> your favorite author? Well, if it&#8217;s John Twelve Hawks &#8212; whose books I&#8217;ve never read myself &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suvudu.com\/2009\/09\/john-twelve-hawks-wants-youto-be-him.html\">you may be in luck<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/\" title=\"SF Signal\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>It might seem obvious to some of us, but we are <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.theatlantic.com\/2009\/09\/closing_the_book_on_the_bush_legacy.php\">fundamentally worse off economically<\/a> now than before George W. Bush&#8217;s two terms as President. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/\" title=\"Mark Evanier\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Philadelphia is <a href=\"http:\/\/libwww.freelibrary.org\/closing\/\">shutting down all its free public libraries<\/a>. This seems like it ought to be a bigger story. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\/\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>If anyone&#8217;s looking for an expensive early Christmas present for me&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=blog&#038;id=54754\">I&#8217;m just saying<\/a>&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>And finally, offered without comment &#8212; except to say I noticed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=35\">Wait, Wait&#8230;Don&#8217;t Tell Me!<\/a> picked up the story this weekend &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/News\/story\/sm_3474534.html\">Half of Brits injured by biscuits<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one thing to meet your favorite author, but did you ever want to be your favorite author? Well, if it&#8217;s John Twelve Hawks &#8212; whose books I&#8217;ve never read myself &#8212; you may be in luck. [via] It might seem obvious to some of us, but we are fundamentally worse off economically now than &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3570\">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":[16,21,60,37,6,11,39,12],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-food","tag-money","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-publishing","tag-weird","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570"}],"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=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}