{"id":189,"date":"2003-02-13T00:07:45-05:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-13T08:07:45+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=189"},"modified":"2003-02-13T00:07:45-05:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-13T08:07:45+00:00","slug":"miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2003\/02\/13\/miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><ul>\n<li><p><cite>Reuters<\/cite>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/869647.asp?0si=-&amp;cp1=1\">Clean-cut men have fewer strokes<\/a>.  <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2003\/01\/26\/trendy.html\">I<\/a>&#8217;m doomed, in more ways than one.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Del Close, <q>the third titan of improvisation<\/q>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improvcomedy.org\/hall\/close.html\">left his skull<\/a> to the Goodman Theatre.  It&#8217;s to be used in performances of Hamlet.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p><a title=\"Movie Theater Advertising: How Much is Too Much??\" href=\"http:\/\/adrants.rantworks.com\/archives\/2003_02_01_archive.php#90307322\"><cite>Adrants<\/cite><\/a> points out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.didntialreadypayforthismovie.com\/\">didntialreadypayforthismovie.com<\/a>, a sign of a growing backlash against movie-theatre advertisers.  <q>I just plan to arrive 20-25 minutes after the start time and I am still there in time to see the beginning of the movie.<\/q><\/p>\n<p><ins datetime=\"2003-02-22T02:11:00-05:00\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomovieads.com\/\">No Movie Ads<\/a>, a website for <q>the lawsuit alleging theft of time by movie theaters<\/q>. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theshiftedlibrarian.com\/2003\/02\/21.html#a3699\">The Shifted Librarian<\/a>)<\/ins><\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>The word <cite>gun<\/cite> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/belleville\/story.asp?id=DE06E5E3-685B-4751-841C-FAB8B263AADD\">removed from spelling tests<\/a> in a school near near Smiths Falls, <abbr title=\"Ontario\">ON<\/abbr>, after a parent complained, explaining that <q>Guns are violent. End of story.<\/q><\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p lang=\"eo\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.otisfodder.com\/365days\/archive\/044.html\"><cite>Flugadi<\/cite>, o, ho, kantadi, o, ho, ho, ho.<\/a><\/p><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reuters: Clean-cut men have fewer strokes. I&#8217;m doomed, in more ways than one. Del Close, the third titan of improvisation, left his skull to the Goodman Theatre. It&#8217;s to be used in performances of Hamlet. Adrants points out didntialreadypayforthismovie.com, a sign of a growing backlash against movie-theatre advertisers. I just plan to arrive 20-25 minutes&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}