{"id":262,"date":"2002-05-31T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-31T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/?p=262"},"modified":"2002-05-31T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-31T00:01:00","slug":"random-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"random thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drat.  A long time ago, I wrote about the <a href=\"thoughts\/insightful\/00-01-19.html\">tyranny of the blank screen<\/a>.  Now I&#8217;m getting it in printed form.  Or lack thereof.  I&#8217;ve done a lot of background work on my project, but I can&#8217;t get it started the way I want to.  Hopefully, I&#8217;ll get past the writer&#8217;s block soon.<\/p>\n<p>Does the winner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/gen\/news\/2002\/0530\/1388949.html\">National Spelling Bee<\/a> really belong on espn.com?  For that matter, should the event be televised (live, even) on ESPN?  I could see this back in the day, like in 1979, when it would probably have fit in well with stuff like roller derby.  But now, it&#8217;s just not right.  Nothing against the spelling bee.  But it&#8217;s not a sport, people.  Someone at ESPN should have had some <span class=\"tooltip\" title=\"Ha!  I worked the winning word in!\">prospicience<\/span> concerning this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"thoughts\/insane\/\">insane thought<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drat. A long time ago, I wrote about the tyranny of the blank screen. Now I&#8217;m getting it in printed form. Or lack thereof. I&#8217;ve done a lot of background work on my project, but I can&#8217;t get it started the way I want to. Hopefully, I&#8217;ll get past the writer&#8217;s block soon. Does the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1122productions.com\/brandon\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}