{"id":7176,"date":"2011-08-15T18:30:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T22:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7176"},"modified":"2011-08-15T21:12:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T01:12:48","slug":"monday-various-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7176","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2011\/aug\/13\/monty-python-life-brian-bbc\">Monty Python&#8217;s Life of Brian recreated for BBC comic drama<\/a>. This could be interesting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/reliable-source\/post\/wendell-pierce-of-the-wire-and-treme-to-open-groceries-in-new-orleans-food-deserts\/2011\/08\/04\/gIQAb6q6uI_blog.html\">Wendell Pierce, of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe Wire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTreme,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to open groceries in New Orleans \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfood deserts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a>. Good for him! [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/JoshMalina\" title=\"@JoshMalina\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Thudfactor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thudfactor.com\/in-defense-of-parental-leave\">in defense of parental leave<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Finally, complaining that parental leave is an unfair \u00e2\u20ac\u0153benefit\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because not everyone has or wants children is a like complaining psychological medial coverage is unfair because not everyone is insane, or permanent disability coverage is unfair because not everyone is <strong>guaranteed<\/strong> to have their legs chewed off by mechanical equipment while on the clock.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Of course, along the same lines, the sad news that <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2011\/08\/09\/290588\/chart-women-phd\/\">Women have to have a Ph.D. to Make As Much As Men With a B.A.<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, the trailer for Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s new movie, <i>Twixt<\/i> is just bizarre. His plans to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2011\/08\/qhow-does-it-feel-being-the-bargain-basement-stephen-kingq-twixt-trailer-review\">exhibit [it] as a road show, re-editing the movie after every screening based on audience reaction<\/a>&#8221; sounds almost normal by comparison:\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CtLHPKigPc4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monty Python&#8217;s Life of Brian recreated for BBC comic drama. This could be interesting. Wendell Pierce, of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThe Wire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTreme,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to open groceries in New Orleans \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfood deserts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. Good for him! [via] Thudfactor in defense of parental leave: Finally, complaining that parental leave is an unfair \u00e2\u20ac\u0153benefit\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because not everyone has or wants children &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7176\">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":[125,67,21,195,83,60,23,14,69,17,142,120,52],"class_list":["post-7176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-activism","tag-america","tag-food","tag-labor","tag-legal","tag-money","tag-monty-python","tag-movies","tag-sexism","tag-tv","tag-video","tag-women","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176"}],"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=7176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}