{"id":3743,"date":"2010-02-04T23:06:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T04:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2010-02-04T23:06:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T04:06:10","slug":"a-cold-but-happy-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3743","title":{"rendered":"A cold but happy Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/4326202311\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4028\/4326202311_2d61c5b4b9.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">This evening, my parents and I attended a live broadcast of <a href=\"http:\/\/prairiehome.publicradio.org\/features\/live-in-hd\/\">A Prairie Home Companion<\/a>, piped in from St. Paul, Minnesota, to our local multiplex. It was a lot of fun and a great show &#8212; the news from Lake Wobegone, Elvis Costello &#8212; but now I&#8217;m a little tired.<\/p>\n<p>I went into work a little early this morning, in the hope of getting home a little early, but that plan was dashed by a meeting that ran until a quarter to five. It was an informative meeting that touched directly on some of the work that I do, developing supplemental online materials for our books, but I&#8217;m not sorry to be done with meetings for the week. Not least of all because I kind of wanted to spend the day <i>doing<\/i> a lot of that work.<\/p>\n<p>And I still have editing for <a href=\"http:\/\/kaleidotrope.net\/\">Kaleidotrope<\/a>&#8216;s next issue to do, plus an ever-growing slush pile. I don&#8217;t mind that so much (even if the slush is mostly rejections), but I think I&#8217;m going to have to spend a good part of the weekend re-reading and marking up stories if I expect to have them done for the April issue. On the plus side, I think they&#8217;re some really good stories.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you excuse me, there seems to be a dog barking right outside my bedroom door for some reason. I&#8217;m going to go investigate why, and then eventually find my way to bed.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, my parents and I attended a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion, piped in from St. Paul, Minnesota, to our local multiplex. It was a lot of fun and a great show &#8212; the news from Lake Wobegone, Elvis Costello &#8212; but now I&#8217;m a little tired. I went into work a &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3743\">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-3743","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\/3743"}],"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=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}