{"id":7965,"date":"2011-12-21T23:24:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T04:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7965"},"modified":"2011-12-21T23:24:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T04:24:53","slug":"taking-the-fifth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7965","title":{"rendered":"Taking the fifth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/6528874223\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7166\/6528874223_876936f832.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Day five of my vacation, and I have to admit, I finally broke down and briefly checked my work e-mail. Of course, then I went and saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1229238\/\">the new <i>Mission Impossible<\/i> movie<\/a>, so it&#8217;s not like it was all work for me today. I also read a little, wrapped some Christmas presents, and then this evening watched another movie: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0084726\/\">Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan<\/a>. Which, amazingly, I&#8217;d never seen before. It&#8217;s not perfect, and the effects sure are dated, but it&#8217;s genuinely quite entertaining. No spoilers, even some thirty years later but that ending must have blown Trekkies&#8217; minds back in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and <i>Ghost Protocol<\/i> is pretty good, too. Well staged action and at least as good as the one right before it&#8230;which, actually, I only barely remember. (Say what you will about Brian de Palm&#8217;s muddled first outing, it&#8217;s memorable.) Aside from some really annoying technical glitches in the theater &#8212; a dark screen for almost twenty minutes, then a picture with no sound, and then trailers superimposed on the screen during the last five minutes &#8212; the movie was quite fun.<\/p>\n<p>And that was&#8230;Wednesday, right? Yep, a decent enough day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day five of my vacation, and I have to admit, I finally broke down and briefly checked my work e-mail. Of course, then I went and saw the new Mission Impossible movie, so it&#8217;s not like it was all work for me today. I also read a little, wrapped some Christmas presents, and then this &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7965\">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":[14,28],"class_list":["post-7965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965"}],"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=7965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}