{"id":4268,"date":"2010-07-29T18:30:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T22:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2010-07-29T16:49:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T20:49:38","slug":"thursday-various-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4268","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>So now it&#8217;s not &#8220;what the founding fathers meant&#8221; but &#8220;what the mid-nineteeth-century fathers meant&#8221;? Look, Iowa GOP, it seems to me that, if <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/07\/28\/iowa-gop-supports-amendment-to-strip-obamas-citizenship-because-he-won-the-nobel-peace-prize\/\">the best you can come up with<\/a> is a version of a constitutional amendment that <i>was never actually ratified<\/i>, you&#8217;re grasping at straws. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Bloomsbury will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/124591-bloomsbury-to-e-publish-one-million-page-churchill-archive.html.rss\">e-publish a one-million-page Churchill archive<\/a>. I&#8217;m imagining some lonely archivist shouting, &#8220;But it&#8217;s one million <i>and one<\/i> pages!&#8221; and being told to quietly get rid of the offending page. But that&#8217;s probably just me.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Carpe diem&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clusterflock.org\/2010\/07\/pluck-the-day.html\">doesn&#8217;t mean &#8220;seize the day<\/a>&#8220;? Man, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0097165\/\">Robin Williams<\/a> was a terrible teacher! [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nyssa23\" title=\"@nyssa23\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Man, more rejection letters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2010\/07\/mad-rejection.html\">should be like this<\/a>. (Conversely, less of them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookninja.com\/?p=8418\">should be like this<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>And finally, first <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2010\/07\/star-wars-ny-subway.php\">this<\/a>, now <a href=\"http:\/\/glvalentine.livejournal.com\/270498.html\">this<\/a>. I have <i>got<\/i> to start riding the subway more often!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now it&#8217;s not &#8220;what the founding fathers meant&#8221; but &#8220;what the mid-nineteeth-century fathers meant&#8221;? Look, Iowa GOP, it seems to me that, if the best you can come up with is a version of a constitutional amendment that was never actually ratified, you&#8217;re grasping at straws. [via] Bloomsbury will e-publish a one-million-page Churchill archive. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4268\">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":[40,19,92,64,109,78,54,6,11,10,12],"class_list":["post-4268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-advertising","tag-art","tag-history","tag-language","tag-letters","tag-magazines","tag-new-york","tag-politics","tag-publishing","tag-various","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268"}],"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=4268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}