{"id":360,"date":"2002-06-25T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-26T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2002-06-25T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-26T00:41:00","slug":"360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">For no reason at all, I just spent the past hour re-listening to Neil Gaiman&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/set\/playhouse\/murder\/\">Murder Mysteries<\/a>&#8220;. It&#8217;s probably the first thing of his I ever read, years before I even knew or cared who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\">Neil Gaiman<\/a> was, before I stumbled upon <em>The Sandman<\/em> series with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1563891700\/qid=1025055269\/sr=1-43\/ref=sr_1_43\/002-6471728-7681642\"><em>World&#8217;s End<\/em><\/a>. &#8220;Mysteries&#8221; is a subtle and haunting story, and every time I hear it or read it, I discover something new.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Last night, also for no particular reason, I listened to Gaiman read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/audio\/audio\/cbldf_american_gods2.mp3\">a wonderful story<\/a> from <em>American Gods<\/em>, which I haven&#8217;t read yet, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/audio\/audio\/cbldf_american_gods.mp3\">another<\/a> from <em>Smoke and Mirrors<\/em>, which I have. I find, quite suddenly, that I am now&#8230;out of Neil Gaiman stories to listen to. It seems wholly unfair that I&#8217;ll miss his <a href=\"http:\/\/go.vicinity.com\/bnobled\/authorEvents.d?E=sK4_ijQjKMbrUkVhvHckA*2ByEc5yfdI6aodJVEeHSZ8PDrpdTxMzjrp_uZjrp_0ndR6R1058OkdqiDtV9HXs3Oc46fnHZDn2-58DcW4x7Iupqh3n4eOO891Vdc48O-S1zjw7jquHjjuPnPmWHcfF2aXTIHbqoduczHbuEumqO48O3UndR6R264duzc5zjt2fFJ5LB27Pik9FTkDqXcelx4X_Rf8kwQLhcQ\">appearance in New York<\/a> by less than a week.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">A five-day extension on my short Fourth of July vacation isn&#8217;t <em>too<\/em> much to ask, is it&#8230;? I mean, my boss is going to be out of town that week anyway&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For no reason at all, I just spent the past hour re-listening to Neil Gaiman&#8217;s &#8220;Murder Mysteries&#8220;. It&#8217;s probably the first thing of his I ever read, years before I even knew or cared who Neil Gaiman was, before I stumbled upon The Sandman series with World&#8217;s End. &#8220;Mysteries&#8221; is a subtle and haunting story, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=360\">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":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360"}],"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=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}