{"id":4181,"date":"2003-01-23T09:06:26","date_gmt":"2003-01-23T14:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2003-01-23T09:06:26","modified_gmt":"2003-01-23T14:06:26","slug":"thursday_5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/23\/thursday_5.html","title":{"rendered":"Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Which means it must be time for The Thursday Thumb-Twiddler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

1. If there were to be a televised, public execution broadcast in prime time, would you watch it?<\/b><\/p>\n

Yes, I think I would.<\/p>\n

Part of it would be the morbid curiosity factor. But part of it would be the belief that, if I support a society that does such things (executing criminals), I ought to be willing to participate in it to the extent of witnessing it.<\/p>\n

2. If you could mold to your liking your memories of any past experiences, would you do so?<\/b><\/p>\n

With great caution, yes. There are a few memories that cause me serious wincing as to how I made an ass of myself. None are of any great significance, except in my own head, and I think I could do without the bone-jarring stupidity of them.<\/p>\n

3. The excitement of the Holiday Season is long over. What “big day” are you looking forward to next?<\/b><\/p>\n

Well, my birthday is come and gone. We’ve our vacation to the UK coming up in a few weeks (!). We’ve an anniversary coming up in April, but I’d say that the next Milestone is Katherine’s birthday in May. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Which means it must be time for The Thursday Thumb-Twiddler….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-qa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5552,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/23\/weekend_game_wr.html","url_meta":{"origin":4181,"position":0},"title":"Weekend game wrap-up","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Feb-04 7:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"Thursday Well, I already wrote about this back on Thursday, but I now have proof-positive that Margie GMed for me. 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