{"id":5239,"date":"2010-11-24T18:30:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T23:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5239"},"modified":"2010-11-24T14:44:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T19:44:02","slug":"wednesday-various-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5239","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I like Todd VanDerWerff &#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/dancing-with-the-stars-episode-1110episode-1110a,48027\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_tv\">write-up of <i>Dancing With the Stars<\/i><\/a> a lot more than I think I would ever like the show itself.<\/li>\n<li><i>Popular Mechanics<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/gadgets\/tests\/which-shipping-company-is-kindest-to-your-packages?click=pp\">looks at shipping scientifically<\/a>: &#8220;One disheartening result was that our package received more abuse when marked &#8216;Fragile&#8217; or &#8216;This Side Up.'&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>The Harry Potter series <a href=\"http:\/\/femonster.tumblr.com\/post\/1659822218\/harry-potter-series-from-hermiones-point-of-view\">from Hermione&#8217;s point of view<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/TashaRobinson\" title=\"@TashaRobinson\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>John Scalzi&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmcritic.com\/features\/2010\/11\/accurate-but-misleading-movie-synopses\/\">accurate but misleading descriptions of famous science fiction films<\/a>. Mild spoiler warnings all around.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, John Cleese on the creative process [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/\" title=\"Mark Evanier\">via<\/a>]:\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zGt3-fxOvug&#038;rel=0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zGt3-fxOvug&#038;rel=0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><\/embed><\/object><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Todd VanDerWerff &#8216;s write-up of Dancing With the Stars a lot more than I think I would ever like the show itself. Popular Mechanics looks at shipping scientifically: &#8220;One disheartening result was that our package received more abuse when marked &#8216;Fragile&#8217; or &#8216;This Side Up.&#8217;&#8221; [via] The Harry Potter series from Hermione&#8217;s point &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5239\">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":[16,149,44,14,132,31,38,17,10,142,12],"class_list":["post-5239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-humor","tag-mail","tag-movies","tag-parody","tag-sci-fi","tag-science","tag-tv","tag-various","tag-video","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239"}],"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=5239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}