{"id":4326,"date":"2010-08-05T18:30:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T22:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2010-08-05T16:15:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T20:15:43","slug":"thursday-various-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4326","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/refreshingnews9.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/pencil-sculptures-miniature.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/91-162x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"9\" width=\"162\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4329\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5602985\/tokyos-oldest-woman-113-missing-since-1980s\">A pair of weird stories<\/a> about Japan&#8217;s disappearing old people.\n<p>In the one case, it looks like just a combination of clerical error and magical thinking. (If your 89-year-old mother disappears, you should maybe inform the police, not keep paying her health insurance for a quarter-century on the off-chance that she&#8217;s still alive.) The other story is a whole lot more creepy, however. It&#8217;s one thing that they kept collecting the old man&#8217;s pension after he died. Did they have to keep his remains around for thirty years? [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s the end of an era. Well, several dozen eras, actually, starting quite possibly with the Mesozoic. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/entertainment-reporting-on-an-entertainment-report,43854\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_tv\">Mary Hart is leaving <i>Entertainment Tonight<\/i><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Oh yeah, this will be a surefire box office hit: a Jerry Garcia biopic <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.nytimes.com\/click.phdo?i=df9fef37a86fffdd69ed83bb40e34509\">that can&#8217;t use any of his music<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I kind of love these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/tag\/ComicsEverybody\/\">Comics, Everybody!<\/a>: the histories of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2010\/07\/15\/hawkman-history-lbfa-comics\/\">Hawkman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2010\/07\/01\/xorn-history-comic-lbfa\/\">Xorn<\/a> explained.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, some absolutely stunning <a href=\"http:\/\/refreshingnews9.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/pencil-sculptures-miniature.html\">sculptures carved from pencils<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/MJMcKean\" title=\"@MJMcKean\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of weird stories about Japan&#8217;s disappearing old people. In the one case, it looks like just a combination of clerical error and magical thinking. (If your 89-year-old mother disappears, you should maybe inform the police, not keep paying her health insurance for a quarter-century on the off-chance that she&#8217;s still alive.) The other &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4326\">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":[19,20,136,108,14,15,37,17,10,39],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-comics","tag-creepy","tag-crime","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-news","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326"}],"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=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}