{"id":203,"date":"2003-09-07T17:12:08","date_gmt":"2003-09-07T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=203"},"modified":"2003-09-07T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2003-09-07T17:12:08","slug":"stop_talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Stop Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love football, but I hate most football announcers. Especially the ex-jocks whose alleged duty is to provide “color” commentary. Said “color” usually consists of painfully obvious remarks about the game or some lame attempt to engage in verbal repartee with the real announcer. Do we really need two announcers anyway? The guys who work in radio are far less obnoxious. I think they have a better understanding that people are interested in the game, not the braying of a former player.
\nI have a love of classic science fiction films from the 40s and 50s, so I think I’ll pick up the new DVD version of The Thing from Another World<\/a>. The dialogue in this movie is sort of proto-Tarantino; rapid-fire and sarcastic.
\nFor those of you who are curious, the cause of my computer calamity was a combination of poor case ventilation and dust build-up. That is something that will definitely be addressed when I do my rebuild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love football, but I hate most football announcers. Especially the ex-jocks whose alleged duty is to provide “color” commentary. Said “color” usually consists of painfully obvious remarks about the game or some lame attempt to engage in verbal repartee with the real announcer. Do we really need two announcers anyway? The guys who work […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-3h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}