{"id":9680,"date":"2012-11-21T23:36:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T04:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9680"},"modified":"2012-11-21T23:36:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T04:36:58","slug":"training-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9680","title":{"rendered":"Training sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/8201105495\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8342\/8201105495_e94df1f9a6_z.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today was more comics, more writing, very little work e-mail, and rounded out with an episode of <i>Quantum Leap<\/i> and tonight <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0044079\/\">Strangers on a Train<\/a>. The latter is great mostly for Robert Walker&#8217;s performance&#8230;and for <a href=\"http:\/\/puppetwrangler.tumblr.com\/post\/36262594309\/its-at-the-very-end-so-it-contains-pretty-big\">this amazing climactic scene<\/a>. I can&#8217;t in good conscience recommend you watch the clip if you haven&#8217;t seen the movie, but I&#8217;m not exaggerating when I say it&#8217;s one of the most amazing and outlandish things I&#8217;ve ever seen. It&#8217;s Hitchcock at his most entertainingly insane.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that was&#8230;what was it, Wednesday? I mean, I also went to the bank, having been reimbursed for my Maryland trip, and I finally got gas for my car, now that there are no more rationing and day-long lines. But I spent most of the day writing, even if I didn&#8217;t write a whole lot.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just glad I wasn&#8217;t on the <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/21\/all-train-service-at-penn-station-shut-down-due-to-switching-problem\/\">Long Island Railroad tonight<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was more comics, more writing, very little work e-mail, and rounded out with an episode of Quantum Leap and tonight Strangers on a Train. The latter is great mostly for Robert Walker&#8217;s performance&#8230;and for this amazing climactic scene. I can&#8217;t in good conscience recommend you watch the clip if you haven&#8217;t seen the movie, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9680\">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":[14,28,17,52],"class_list":["post-9680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-movies","tag-personal","tag-tv","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680"}],"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=9680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}