{"id":3942,"date":"2010-05-30T23:12:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T03:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2010-05-30T23:12:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T03:12:21","slug":"something-like-a-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3942","title":{"rendered":"Something like a Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/465117763\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4022\/4651177603_b3bf5df549.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">It&#8217;s Memorial Day weekend, and the weather&#8217;s just been lovely, sort of perfect sit-in-the-backyard-with-the-iPad weather. Beyond that, and the ever-growing <i>Kaleidotrope<\/i> slush pile that I&#8217;m still trying to get through, I spent today watching <i>Doctor Who Confidential<\/i> and some of the special features on the <i>Mystery Team<\/i> DVD, finishing the <i>New York Times<\/i> Sunday crossword (for a change), meeting up with a friend for our weekly writing group, and reading the rest of <i>Fifth Business<\/i> by Robertson Davies. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lectio.ca\/\">Heather<\/a>, who sent me the book at my birthday, calls it &#8220;the bane of every twelfth grade student&#8221; in her native Canada (where the book is largely set), but I kind of liked it. There was a long stretch, in which nothing particularly <i>happens<\/i>, when I wasn&#8217;t so sure that was going to be the case, but I can actually see going on and reading the other two books in Davies&#8217; trilogy. Not right now, of course &#8212; I feel like I need a good shot of science fiction to counteract my recent readings &#8212; but at some point in the future.<\/p>\n<p>My more immediate future, however, involves maybe watching a little television, maybe reading a little more, and going to bed.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Memorial Day weekend, and the weather&#8217;s just been lovely, sort of perfect sit-in-the-backyard-with-the-iPad weather. Beyond that, and the ever-growing Kaleidotrope slush pile that I&#8217;m still trying to get through, I spent today watching Doctor Who Confidential and some of the special features on the Mystery Team DVD, finishing the New York Times Sunday crossword &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3942\">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":[16,82,4,28],"class_list":["post-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-canada","tag-kaleidotrope","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942"}],"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=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}