{"id":3724,"date":"2010-01-26T18:30:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T23:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2010-01-26T18:30:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T23:30:06","slug":"tuesday-various-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3724","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boy, when Mark Twain called you an idiot, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2010\/01\/youre-idiot-of-33rd-degree.html\">he didn&#8217;t fool around<\/a>. &#8220;&#8230;scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link&#8221; indeed!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/usartaccidentpicasso;_ylt=AnimWyf0WKctHund3CDB8PIFO7gF\">New York woman falls, rips Picasso painting<\/a>. Well <i>that&#8217;s<\/i> embarrassing! <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5457026\/the-price-of-falling-into-a-picasso-65-million?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed:+gawker\/full+%28Gawker%29\">Gawker<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>] has more.<\/li>\n<li>The Chinese <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/entertainmentchinafilmavatarmountainoffbeat;_ylt=AnimWyf0WKctHund3CDB8PIeO7gF\">have re-named a mountain<\/a> &#8220;Avatar Hallelujah Mountain,&#8221; after the James Cameron movie. Because of course they have.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/blogs\/2010\/01\/25\/politics\/politicalhotsheet\/entry6139186.shtml\">S.C. Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer Compares Helping Poor to Feeding Stray Animals<\/a>. They sure do know how to pick &#8217;em in South Carolina, don&#8217;t they? [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MJMcKean\" title=\"Michael McKean\">[via]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And finally, a lovely quote <a href=\"http:\/\/chinamieville.net\/post\/354398191\">from China Mi\u00c3\u00a9ville<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>The truth is different. Chrononauts litter no less than any other tourists. The past is a dump, each epoch a tip of its futures\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rubbish. There are no police: only overworked binwomen and binmen endlessly shovelling junk into timefills. They slog uninterrupted: the detritus is all over the place, and unnoticed by us natives. We stub our toes every day on things discarded from times to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boy, when Mark Twain called you an idiot, he didn&#8217;t fool around. &#8220;&#8230;scion of an ancestral procession of idiots stretching back to the Missing Link&#8221; indeed! New York woman falls, rips Picasso painting. Well that&#8217;s embarrassing! Gawker [via] has more. The Chinese have re-named a mountain &#8220;Avatar Hallelujah Mountain,&#8221; after the James Cameron movie. Because &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3724\">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":[19,109,14,37,6,10,39,12],"class_list":["post-3724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-letters","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-various","tag-weird","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724"}],"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=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}