{"id":3728,"date":"2010-01-28T18:30:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T23:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2010-01-28T18:30:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T23:30:35","slug":"thursday-various-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3728","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was sad to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/28\/jd-salinger-91-is-dead\/\">J.D. Salinger had passed away<\/a>. I think <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hodgman\">John Hodgman<\/a> said it best: &#8220;I prefer to think JD Salinger has just decided to become extra reclusive.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m much more sad to hear the terrible news <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenmanreview.com\/\">about Kage Baker<\/a>, who has apparently lost her battle with cancer and has only a few weeks to live. I haven&#8217;t read a lot of Baker&#8217;s books &#8212; just the first two in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kagebaker.com\/Bibliography.html\">her Company series<\/a> &#8212; but she&#8217;s a real gifted talent taken much too soon.<\/li>\n<li>Today in banning: first, a Wisconsin jail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.620wtmj.com\/news\/local\/82671317.html\">bans Dungeons &#038; Dragons<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Singer was told by prison officials that he could not keep the materials because Dungeons &#038; Dragons &#8220;promotes fantasy role playing, competitive hostility, violence, addictive escape behaviors, and possible gambling,&#8221; according to the ruling. The prison later developed a more comprehensive policy against all types of fantasy games, the court said. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">And a California school district <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/menifee\/stories\/PE_News_Local_W_sdictionary22.414bdf0.html\">bans the dictionary<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-C.com\/\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>In much happier news, a story of a Haitian man rescued from beaneath the rubble <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/jan\/24\/haiti-earthquake-survivor-remarkable-rescue\">11 days after the earthquake<\/a> &#8212; &#8220;and hours after the government declared search and rescue operations to be officially over.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>And finally, Zack Handlen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/orphan,37560\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_dvd\">watches the horror movie  <i>Orphan<\/i><\/a> so the rest of us don&#8217;t have to:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">&#8230;just playing creepy music and panning over a room isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t creating mood, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s giving the production designer a clip reel&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sad to see that J.D. Salinger had passed away. I think John Hodgman said it best: &#8220;I prefer to think JD Salinger has just decided to become extra reclusive.&#8221; I&#8217;m much more sad to hear the terrible news about Kage Baker, who has apparently lost her battle with cancer and has only a &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3728\">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":[16,51,83,14,37,49,31,10,111],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-crazy","tag-legal","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-school","tag-sci-fi","tag-various","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728"}],"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=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}