{"id":3736,"date":"2010-02-01T18:30:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T23:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2010-02-01T18:30:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T23:30:10","slug":"monday-various-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3736","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sad to learn that author Kage Baker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/News\/2010\/02\/kage-baker-1952-2010.html\">passed away from cancer<\/a> over the weekend.<\/li>\n<li>Not terribly surprised to learn that Sarah Palin&#8217;s political action committee <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/seattlepolitics\/archives\/192991.asp?from=blog_last3\">spent more money buying her book<\/a> than on, well, political action.<\/li>\n<li><i>Very<\/i> surprised to learn that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/savage_beagles_terrorize_east_end_FpN3hlz90Jee9rKgTI8VEN\">packs of wild beagles<\/a> are terrorizing the east end of Long Island.<\/li>\n<li>Impressed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2010\/01\/i-felt-risk-of-being-overwhelmed-by.html\">James Cameron&#8217;s letter to H.R. Giger&#8217;s agent<\/a> about why Cameron didn&#8217;t involve Giger in the design and filming of <i>Aliens<\/i>. Where&#8217;s this kind of honest humility gone in the James Cameron of today?<\/li>\n<li>And finally, very impressed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/chameleoncircuitmusic\">Chameleon Circuit<\/a>, who put out some of the best <i>Doctor Who<\/i>-themed music I&#8217;ve ever heard. That might sound like I&#8217;m damning them with faint praise, to some of you, but I think these are really neat songs. One of them easily wound up on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3735\">January music mix<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/\" title=\"Tor.com\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to learn that author Kage Baker passed away from cancer over the weekend. Not terribly surprised to learn that Sarah Palin&#8217;s political action committee spent more money buying her book than on, well, political action. Very surprised to learn that packs of wild beagles are terrorizing the east end of Long Island. Impressed by &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3736\">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":[67,110,16,14,15,37,6,39,12],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-america","tag-animals","tag-books","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-weird","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736"}],"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=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}