{"id":8567,"date":"2012-04-05T22:06:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T02:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8567"},"modified":"2012-04-05T22:07:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T02:07:10","slug":"thursday-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8567","title":{"rendered":"Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/7049346817\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7214\/7049346817_3c584d4796.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think I might be allergic to Thursdays. I think I might have said this before, and not just earlier today on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>It was a pretty normal Thursday, despite the runny nose and perpetual half-sneeze that seemed to dog me all morning.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;m re-reading <i>Watership Down<\/i> and mostly enjoying it, if it&#8217;s not <i>quite<\/i> as delightful as I remember it, from years and years ago. I did run into an odd phrase, which kind of underlined the fact that this was written thirty years ago by a man born in the 1920s. Adams writes that &#8220;a rabbit can no more refuse to tell a story than an Irishman can refuse to fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I mean, it&#8217;s not quite the casual, friendly racism of <i>Tintin in the Congo<\/i>, which I also read this year, but it&#8217;s hard to see that phrase getting by an editor nowadays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I might be allergic to Thursdays. I think I might have said this before, and not just earlier today on Twitter. It was a pretty normal Thursday, despite the runny nose and perpetual half-sneeze that seemed to dog me all morning. Meanwhile, I&#8217;m re-reading Watership Down and mostly enjoying it, if it&#8217;s not &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8567\">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":[16,28],"class_list":["post-8567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567"}],"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=8567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}