{"id":300,"date":"2003-12-02T18:52:44","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T18:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=300"},"modified":"2003-12-02T18:52:44","modified_gmt":"2003-12-02T18:52:44","slug":"but_why_no_drei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"But Why No “Dreidel, Dreidel”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I deleted every episode of The West Wing from my TiVo the other day. Ever since Aaron Sorkin left, it’s simply become too painful to watch. The dialog is stilted and pedantic; the characters are dull and irksome; the plots are obvious and unoriginal. Sad, really. Maybe I’ll pick up the DVD set sometime so that I can be reminded of how brilliant the show used to be.
\nI dragged the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas albums<\/a> out of the digital closet and onto my iTunes playlist. Their music is highly refined and processed ear candy. It’s perfect background noise. It’s the aural equivalent of getting in the car and driving around to look at the Christmas lights; a complete waste of time but you do it anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I deleted every episode of The West Wing from my TiVo the other day. Ever since Aaron Sorkin left, it’s simply become too painful to watch. The dialog is stilted and pedantic; the characters are dull and irksome; the plots are obvious and unoriginal. Sad, really. Maybe I’ll pick up the DVD set sometime so […]<\/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-300","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-4Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","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=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}