{"id":3803,"date":"2010-03-05T23:21:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T04:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2010-03-05T23:21:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T04:21:27","slug":"a-possibly-haunted-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3803","title":{"rendered":"A possibly haunted house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/4410342066\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4050\/4410342066_1bef4e1816.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Today was Friday, and there&#8217;s not a whole lot more to say about it except that. I wrote a little more this evening, which is tough to do while standing up on a crowded and bumpy train, but I like where the little bit I got down is headed. It may helps me get closer to where I think the story overall is supposed to be headed.<\/p>\n<p>Then this evening, I watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1172994\/\">The House of the Devil<\/a>, which is an interesting movie. It&#8217;s a pitch-perfect homage to &#8217;80s horror and sometimes really genuinely scary. As Roger Ebert wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20091111\/REVIEWS\/911119997\/1023\">in his review<\/a>, it&#8217;s a movie that &#8220;understands that if there&#8217;s anything scarier than haunted house, it&#8217;s a <i>possibly<\/i> haunted house.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s a whole lot <i>more<\/i> than a skillful imitation of movies they don&#8217;t make a lot of anymore, but I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>Now I think it&#8217;s time for a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hipsoda.com\/caption\/chatframes.php\">blind capping<\/a>, then maybe the <i>Burn Notice<\/i> season finale and bed. That&#8217;s a halfway decent Friday, no?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was Friday, and there&#8217;s not a whole lot more to say about it except that. I wrote a little more this evening, which is tough to do while standing up on a crowded and bumpy train, but I like where the little bit I got down is headed. It may helps me get closer &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3803\">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":[13,14,28,17,12],"class_list":["post-3803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-capping","tag-movies","tag-personal","tag-tv","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803"}],"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=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}