{"id":6568,"date":"2011-05-08T22:26:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T02:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6568"},"modified":"2011-05-08T22:26:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T02:26:18","slug":"in-which-my-sunday-is-spent-mostly-watching-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6568","title":{"rendered":"In which my Sunday is spent mostly watching TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/5702068212\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2002\/5702068212_c3ba3c2aee.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was going to join my weekly writing group, then go see <i>Thor<\/i> with them afterward, but our plans fell apart. Maybe next week. I spent the day mostly watching television, or at least it seems so in retrospect. I watched the last two episodes of <i>Fringe<\/i> &#8212; which was a lot of fun, if in the end a little disappointing &#8212; the latest episode of <i>Doctor Who<\/i> &#8212; which had its moments but&#8230;well, next week&#8217;s Neil Gaiman-penned episode looks really good &#8212; and a couple episodes of <i>Supernatural<\/i> and <i>Misfits<\/i>. Oh, and the most recent episode of <i>How I Met Your Mother<\/i>. I think that&#8217;s it. On paper, it sounds horribly unproductive, but it was a pleasant enough day off, lots of good weather all around. I went for a walk, and listened to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/shorts\/2009\/oct\/18\/\">Selected Shorts reading of Dan Chaon&#8217;s &#8220;The Bees&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; a haunting story that knocked the wind out of me even though I&#8217;d read it before. And I more or less finished the Sunday crossword.<\/p>\n<p>So, maybe not the single most incredible or exciting Sunday &#8212; I&#8217;d have liked to have done more writing, more reading &#8212; but nevertheless enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>And a happy Mother&#8217;s Day, to mine and yours and all mothers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to join my weekly writing group, then go see Thor with them afterward, but our plans fell apart. Maybe next week. I spent the day mostly watching television, or at least it seems so in retrospect. I watched the last two episodes of Fringe &#8212; which was a lot of fun, if &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6568\">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":[28,147,17,12],"class_list":["post-6568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal","tag-podcasts","tag-tv","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568"}],"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=6568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}