{"id":6583,"date":"2011-05-12T18:30:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T22:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6583"},"modified":"2011-05-11T21:03:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T01:03:58","slug":"thursday-various-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6583","title":{"rendered":"Thursday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Is a jail in South Carolina <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/may\/10\/us-prisoners-refused-books-bible\">denying prisoners any books except the Bible<\/a>? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\" title=\"Bookslut\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/new-york-under-siege-by-will-smiths-ridiculously-h,55923\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_film\">New York under siege by Will Smith&#8217;s ridiculously huge trailer<\/a>. More, with video of the trailer in (in)action <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Opxpg6GFbxY\">here<\/a>. It&#8217;s not in my neck of the Manhattan woods, fortunately or unfortunately.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6081\">before<\/a> that WNYC&#8217;s <i>The Leonard Lopate Show<\/i> has recently started posting short exit questionnaires with guests. This week, there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/lopate\/articles\/web-extras\/2011\/may\/06\/guest-picks-tom-wopat\">one with actor Tom Wopat<\/a>, who says the &#8220;one thing [he&#8217;s] a fan of that people might not expect&#8221; is bluegrass. Tom Wopat, star of <i>The Dukes of Hazzard<\/i>, is a fan of bluegrass. Yeah, color me shocked.<\/li>\n<li>Forget what I said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6566\">here<\/a>, though. UK book sales <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/book-sales-spring-back-after-royal-wedding-week.html\">have sprung back from an eight-year (Royal Wedding-caused?) low.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, Ken Jennings <a href=\"http:\/\/ken-jennings.com\/blog\/archives\/2738\">makes the bold claim<\/a> that the criminal activities depicted in Scooby-Doo don&#8217;t make real-world sense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a jail in South Carolina denying prisoners any books except the Bible? [via] New York under siege by Will Smith&#8217;s ridiculously huge trailer. More, with video of the trailer in (in)action here. It&#8217;s not in my neck of the Manhattan woods, fortunately or unfortunately. I&#8217;ve mentioned before that WNYC&#8217;s The Leonard Lopate Show has &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6583\">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":[16,128,171,83,14,15,54,37,28,17,10],"class_list":["post-6583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-cartoons","tag-celebrity","tag-legal","tag-movies","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-personal","tag-tv","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583"}],"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=6583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}