{"id":524,"date":"2004-07-05T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2004-07-05T17:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=524"},"modified":"2004-07-05T17:51:21","modified_gmt":"2004-07-05T17:51:21","slug":"be_my_guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"Be My Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ugh.  I&#8217;m going to keep this short because I&#8217;ve spent the last five hours chained to my computer, working on the grant I mentioned earlier.<br \/>\nMy friend Charles, who guest-blogged while I was in Miami, will be coming to visit in a couple weeks.  I&#8217;m looking forward to a week of pizza, late-night gaming, and just hanging out.  And he&#8217;s also bringing his collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/\">MST3K<\/a> DVDs, which should provide some amusement.  A few years ago, when I was in the hospital recovering from pneumonia, Charles brought a tape of one of the episodes (I think it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/episodes\/epnine.html\">Space Children<\/a>).  We started watching it and during the absolutely hilarious Jackie Coogan skit, I began to laugh so hard that the attending nurse thought I was having a seizure.<br \/>\nBummer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallifreyone.com\/newstv.php\">no Daleks in the new Dr. Who<\/a>.  So much for my Halloween costume idea of taping a plunger to my forehead, encasing my chair in an aluminum barrel, and wandering the floors of my building yelling &#8220;Exterminate!  Exterminate!&#8221;  I still might do it, even if only two people in the whole neighborhood get the reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugh. I&#8217;m going to keep this short because I&#8217;ve spent the last five hours chained to my computer, working on the grant I mentioned earlier. My friend Charles, who guest-blogged while I was in Miami, will be coming to visit in a couple weeks. I&#8217;m looking forward to a week of pizza, late-night gaming, and <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=524' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-524","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-8s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","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=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}