{"id":4211,"date":"2010-07-22T18:30:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T22:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4211"},"modified":"2010-07-22T16:47:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T20:47:37","slug":"thursday-various-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4211","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve always thought that competitive eating contests were, at best, disgusting and dumb, and, at worst, encouragers of some really awful and unhealthy behavior. Turns out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2259695\/\">it&#8217;s <i>much<\/i> worse than I ever imagined<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\/\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Who could have guessed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellsfestival.com\/\">an H.G. Wells story contest<\/a> that banned science fiction and required manuscripts be handwritten <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2010\/07\/hg-wells-writing-contest.php\">would get no entries<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bar-art\/\">The Searcher<\/a> has been on something of a zombie kick recently: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bar-art\/4792124874\/\">Zombie Journal: Of Conscience and Appetites<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bar-art\/4808139172\/\">The Tragedy of Zombie Clown<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/06\/09\/gallery-digitizing-t.html\">Inside the digital preservation process<\/a> at the Library of Congress. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maximumfun.org\/\" title=\"Maximum Fun\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5580800\/the-real-people-behind-famous-fictional-characters\/gallery\/\">the Real People Behind Famous Fictional Characters<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gwendabond.typepad.com\/bondgirl\/\" title=\"Gwenda Bond\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always thought that competitive eating contests were, at best, disgusting and dumb, and, at worst, encouragers of some really awful and unhealthy behavior. Turns out, it&#8217;s much worse than I ever imagined. [via] Who could have guessed that an H.G. Wells story contest that banned science fiction and required manuscripts be handwritten would get &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4211\">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":[16,21,5,92,83,47,31,10,12,24],"class_list":["post-4211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-food","tag-health","tag-history","tag-legal","tag-libraries","tag-sci-fi","tag-various","tag-writing","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211"}],"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=4211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}