{"id":3655,"date":"2009-12-21T23:29:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T04:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3655"},"modified":"2009-12-21T23:29:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T04:29:54","slug":"monday-various-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3655","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maybe I&#8217;m just still bitter that my family stood on line for several hours to see this when it was new &#8212; and missed out on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Journey_into_Imagination_with_Figment\">Journey into Imagination<\/a> (at the time a personal favorite and which is what we originally thought we were standing on line for) &#8212; but come on, <a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/12\/george-lucas-and-michael.php\">the return of <i>Captain Eo<\/i><\/a>? Really?<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m always dubious about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/booksblog\/2009\/dec\/15\/best-words-of-the-decade\">lists of new slang words<\/a>. They inevitably seem like they&#8217;re just a joke on whoever is compiling them &#8212; &#8220;can you believe what I got that reporter from the <i>Guardian<\/i> to believe?&#8221; &#8212; or like somebody&#8217;s just gotten corrugated ankles, gone to goat heaven, and started making things up. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Graham Greene once entered a contest to parody himself. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futilitycloset.com\/2009\/12\/11\/not-myself\/\">He came in second<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thebookslut\" title=\"Jessa Crispin\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sketchysantas.com\/\">Sketchy Santas<\/a>. Parents, do you <i>really<\/i> want your kids sitting on these men&#8217;s laps? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, speaking of which, Jack Bauer&#8217;s making a list and checking it twice&#8230;\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tp19qiash2U&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x5d1719&#038;color2=0xcd311b\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tp19qiash2U&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x5d1719&#038;color2=0xcd311b\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I&#8217;m just still bitter that my family stood on line for several hours to see this when it was new &#8212; and missed out on Journey into Imagination (at the time a personal favorite and which is what we originally thought we were standing on line for) &#8212; but come on, the return of &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3655\">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":[66,100,50,28,9,17,10,7,12],"class_list":["post-3655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-childhood","tag-christmas","tag-funny","tag-personal","tag-pop-culture","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-videos","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655"}],"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=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}