{"id":90,"date":"2006-02-11T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2006-02-11T05:00:20","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T10:00:20","slug":"saturday-open-thread-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2006\/02\/11\/saturday-open-thread-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Olympics have started (I guess).  When I was a kid, these things seemed huge to me; I can remember everybody watching every event intently, and keeping a close eye on the medal count.  It was very important to beat that nasty old CCCP bunch.<\/p>\n<p>Now, eh.  Whatever.  Of course, back in <strong><em>my<\/em><\/strong> day, the Olympics were on 33% of all the TV stations we got.  OK, well, 25% if you counted PBS, and maybe 20% if it was a clear day and we were getting the Kingston Ontario station (where we&#8217;d watch Curling, which is kind of a Zen sport that most of us in the US don&#8217;t quite get).  These days,  I almost never watch live television; between my two ReplayTV&#8217;s (and now the ReplayRadio), I have more hours of mindless entertainment than I know what to do with.  But at least I don&#8217;t have to watch commercials.  <\/p>\n<p>So, will we have the Marc Maron Show to listen to on Monday?  I&#8217;m kind of thinking we won&#8217;t.  If anybody out there in SF caught or will be catching him this weekend, don&#8217;t forget to give us a full report! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Olympics have started (I guess). When I was a kid, these things seemed huge to me; I can remember everybody watching every event intently, and keeping a close eye on the medal count. It was very important to beat that nasty old CCCP bunch. Now, eh. Whatever. Of course, back in my day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}