{"id":348,"date":"2003-03-17T05:03:42","date_gmt":"2003-03-17T10:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2003\/03\/17\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-20T21:34:36","modified_gmt":"2005-10-21T01:34:36","slug":"two-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2003\/03\/17\/two-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Two things"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve been thinking about a lot of things, but I&#8217;m not sure as I want to write about them.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier tonight, though, I was watching the new Children of Dune miniseries, and several things occurred to me:<\/p>\n<p>1. After the original miniseries was on, I resolved to read the books. It&#8217;s been 2 years and I still have not done this. Why?<br \/>Answer: I am a lazyass reader who would rather re-read books 5 or 6 times than risk starting a book that may bore me or make me start to like characters who later die or have otherwise unsatisfactory ends.  Because once I start, I have a compulsion to finish.<\/p>\n<p>2. As Jen noticed, the new Lady Jessica is the Borg Queen.  This is not, however, why she looked so damn familiar to me when she appeared on screen.  I realized only later that she and Lady Oscar are long lost twins.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been thinking about a lot of things, but I&#8217;m not sure as I want to write about them. Earlier tonight, though, I was watching the new Children of Dune miniseries, and several things occurred to me: 1. After the original miniseries was on, I resolved to read the books. It&#8217;s been 2 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}