{"id":902,"date":"2005-07-15T20:14:55","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T20:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=902"},"modified":"2005-07-15T20:14:55","modified_gmt":"2005-07-15T20:14:55","slug":"childs_play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"Child’s Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Organized sports brings out truly vile behavior in some people. In Pittsburgh, a T-ball coach paid one of the little tykes on his team $25<\/a> to bean another teammate in the head with a baseball. Motive: the coach didn’t want this kid, who happens to have a cognitive disability, playing on his team. Mind you, we’re talking about T-ball<\/em>. Do they even keep score in T-ball? Was the coach worried his team would miss that last wild card spot in the T-ball playoffs? Fucking idiot.
\nI saw War of the Worlds<\/a> last weekend. I liked it a lot. Seeing that tripod burst out of the street was one of the more frightening experiences I’ve had at a movie recently. WARNING: Quit reading if you don’t want to see spoilers. I also thought Spielberg’s decision not to show us the entire battle in the field by the farmhouse was brilliant. It could have been a massive CGI spectacle, but limiting our perspective somehow made it feel more authentic. But one thing about this story, in all its incarnations, bugs me. Here you have a supposedly advanced race of aliens with technology that can crush half of America’s military before supper. Before invading, you would think the aliens would have thought to get their shots. I mean, didn’t they do simulations and stuff to prepare? Did the sensors on their tripods fail to detect those pesky microbes? The ending makes the aliens seem more incompetent than menacing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Organized sports brings out truly vile behavior in some people. In Pittsburgh, a T-ball coach paid one of the little tykes on his team $25 to bean another teammate in the head with a baseball. Motive: the coach didn’t want this kid, who happens to have a cognitive disability, playing on his team. Mind you, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-902","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-ey","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","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=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}