{"id":3874,"date":"2010-04-21T18:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T22:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2010-04-21T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T22:30:16","slug":"wednesday-various-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3874","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birbigs.com\/spj\/?p=635\">Mike Birbiglia on New York<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Living in New York requires a certain resilience and a willingness to compromise in your lifestyle. An understanding that sometimes apartments are the size of a Starbucks bathroom and sometimes your kitchen sink and your bathtub share the same drain, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s okay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Does this mark the <a href=\"http:\/\/openvideoalliance.org\/2010\/04\/hitler-downfall-meme-gets-dmcad\/\">downfall of the <i>Downfall<\/i> meme? And how soon, do you think, before <i>this<\/i> gets the <i>Downfall<\/i> meme treatment? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/gerrycanavan\" title=\"@gerrycanavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janeespenson.com\/archives\/00000608.php\">Jane Espenson<\/a>: &#8220;Find your characters&#8217; vulnerable spots and poke them and you&#8217;ll find a story.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/How-the-Paperback-Novel-Changed-Popular-Literature.html\">How the Paperback Novel Changed Popular Literature<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/\" title=\"Bookninja\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, <i>that<\/i> is some teacher:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Although he was correct, Alex&#8217;s actions show a blatant disregard for authority, and a complete lack of respect for his school. In the future, Alex would be better off simply accepting my teachings without resistance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That and other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/04\/15\/punished-for-being-awesom_n_538107.html#s79609\">Most Ridiculous Detention Slips Of All Time<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Birbiglia on New York: Living in New York requires a certain resilience and a willingness to compromise in your lifestyle. An understanding that sometimes apartments are the size of a Starbucks bathroom and sometimes your kitchen sink and your bathtub share the same drain, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s okay. Does this mark the downfall of the &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3874\">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":[16,27,83,14,54,49,10,12],"class_list":["post-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-internet","tag-legal","tag-movies","tag-new-york","tag-school","tag-various","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874"}],"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=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}