{"id":12907,"date":"2008-09-09T22:52:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T05:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/09\/09\/potpourri-apolitical.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T08:29:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T15:29:35","slug":"potpourri_apolitical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/09\/potpourri_apolitical.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri Apolitical"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now 99.95% Politics Free!<\/p>\n

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  1. ‘Thin Man’ Given One Book, One Denver Nod<\/a> – Well, that sounds like a good excuse to read a fun novel (and entertaining movie) again.<\/li>\n
  2. Heinlein’s fan-mail solution<\/a> – “Front!”<\/li>\n
  3. Leviton gives the gift of extra outlets – a third…<\/a> – Cool — looks like a new home improvement project …<\/li>\n
  4. I can’t believe it’s not PhotoShopped!<\/a> – But it’s not.<\/li>\n
  5. Tragedy\/Comedy<\/a> – Go for the full-sized image. Excellent.<\/li>\n
  6. Kungaloosh drink honors Disney’s Adventurers Club<\/a> – Ah, the Adventurers Club … living on in WOW. “Marching along, we’re adventurers …”<\/li>\n
  7. True Blood titles<\/a> – I don’t know if the title sequence for this Bayou Vampire show on HBO is the best such sequence I’ve ever seen, but it’s pretty … creepily evocative.<\/li>\n
  8. The Simpsons opening in Lego<\/a> – Speaking of title sequences, this is a hoot.<\/li>\n
  9. Best show on TV ever?<\/a> – Some of my potential votes weren’t there — but that didn’t make the choice here any easier.\n

    And … finally … really <\/em>finally … <\/li>\n

  10. Three pints and a towel<\/a> – The Blog Post to End All Blog Posts … maybe.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The...","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3481,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/11\/12\/the_well_read_j.html","url_meta":{"origin":12907,"position":4},"title":"The Well-Read Jarhead","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Nov-02 7:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Marine Corps maintains a Professional Reading Program list, basically a required reading list broken out by rank. 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This sequel rightfully tries to be something different, but muddles it by trying to be too philosophical,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/stars3.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47488,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12907\/revisions\/47488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}