{"id":9113,"date":"2012-07-27T22:36:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T02:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9113"},"modified":"2012-07-27T22:36:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T02:36:51","slug":"let-the-games-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9113","title":{"rendered":"Let the games begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/7653327204\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7117\/7653327204_cfdbeb751c.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dark and ominous clouds notwithstanding, last night&#8217;s thunderstorm turned out to be a whole lot of nothing. Oh sure, it rained, but not a lot, and considerably less than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9063\">last week<\/a>, and I don&#8217;t remember hearing any dire warnings before <i>that<\/i> storm.<\/p>\n<p>This evening, I surprised myself by watching most of the Olympics opening ceremony. Here in the States, NBC decided not to air them live but starting at 7:30, some three hours late, with a whole lot of inane chatter over them by Matt Lauer, Meredith Veira, and Bob Costas. Despite that, however, most of it was actually quite moving and well produced. I&#8217;m surprised to discover that I actually have some small amount of Olympics fever this year&#8230;which I think just means I may watch a little of it now and then, as opposed to ignoring it altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark and ominous clouds notwithstanding, last night&#8217;s thunderstorm turned out to be a whole lot of nothing. Oh sure, it rained, but not a lot, and considerably less than last week, and I don&#8217;t remember hearing any dire warnings before that storm. This evening, I surprised myself by watching most of the Olympics opening ceremony. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9113\">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":[213,28,17,114],"class_list":["post-9113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-olympics","tag-personal","tag-tv","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113"}],"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=9113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}