{"id":3762,"date":"2010-02-14T20:54:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T01:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3762"},"modified":"2010-02-14T21:47:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T02:47:27","slug":"as-sunday-goes-so-goes-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3762","title":{"rendered":"As Sunday goes, so goes the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Given that St. Valentine was a 3rd century Roman priest who was stoned and beheaded, wouldn’t a more appropriate celebration of the evening be taking one’s steady gal to witness a brutal murder?” – The Big Bang Theory<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

I spent most of today cleaning and watching episodes of Doctor Who<\/em> (“Time and the Rani” and “Paradise Towers,” specifically), which is…what? Isn’t that how any self-respecting single man spends his Valentine’s Day? Well, it’s what I did. I also worked on the New York Times<\/em> crossword puzzle for a while and walked the dog. World on a string, has I.<\/font><\/p>\n

It’s worth noting that I don’t dislike <\/em>Valentine’s Day; it’s just a holiday that’s all but impossible to enjoy when you’re not with someone. (Or at all when it’s in movie format<\/a>, apparently.) If I had a girlfriend or wife, I might feel differently, but for now…well, I’ll just have to settle for being amused by poems like this<\/a>, images like these<\/a>, the Sunday crossword, and horribly cheesy (but still surprisingly enjoyable) British science fiction from the ’80s.<\/font><\/p>\n

The cleaning I can take or leave, actually.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo by Generik “Given that St. Valentine was a 3rd century Roman priest who was stoned and beheaded, wouldn’t a more appropriate celebration of the evening be taking one’s steady gal to witness a brutal murder?” – The Big Bang Theory I spent most of today cleaning and watching episodes of Doctor Who (“Time and … 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":[28],"class_list":["post-3762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762"}],"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=3762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}