{"id":577,"date":"2004-08-24T17:04:29","date_gmt":"2004-08-24T17:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=577"},"modified":"2004-08-24T17:04:29","modified_gmt":"2004-08-24T17:04:29","slug":"are_those_real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Are Those Real?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, for crying out loud.  The October issue of Playboy will feature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/08\/23\/video_game_vampire_t.html\">topless pictures of a video game character<\/a>.  Why bother airbrushing pictures of a real woman when you get things right the first time with a computer-generated model?  Maybe I&#8217;m old-fashioned, but I like my topless models to have some reality outside of a electronic impulses hard drive.<br \/>\nMy brother wanted to experience American consumerism after spending a year in Europe, so we went to the Mall of America last night.  Visiting that place once a year is more than enough to remind me why I don&#8217;t go there more often.  The seemingly endless rows of middlebrow retailers, the chain restaurants, the teenagers lugging around shopping bags that probably weigh more than they do&#8230;it almost makes me want to take a shower when I get home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, for crying out loud. The October issue of Playboy will feature topless pictures of a video game character. Why bother airbrushing pictures of a real woman when you get things right the first time with a computer-generated model? Maybe I&#8217;m old-fashioned, but I like my topless models to have some reality outside of a <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=577' 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-577","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-9j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","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=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}