{"id":2847,"date":"2009-07-11T23:53:58","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T06:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2009-07-12T00:09:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T07:09:33","slug":"i-wonder-if-its-still-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2847","title":{"rendered":"I wonder if it&#8217;s still scary."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent most of the day trying to get this silly electronical gadget working and I was pretty certain that I hate computers and need them out of my life, but that was only a temporary thought. My computer, after all, has found an episode of <b>Ghost Story<\/b> from 1972 that scared the crap out of me when I was eight. I still remember &#8220;The Concrete Captain&#8221; and I wonder now if it would have the same effect on me now. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll stay up too late finding out.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I didn&#8217;t stay up that late finishing <b>Requiem For an Assassin<\/b>. If I had known that it was the last &#8220;John Rain&#8221; book, I&#8217;d have taken more time to read it. The gym is closed for the next few days, as well, so I&#8217;ll have more time for sleeping and geekery. Why not watch a ghost story from my youth to see if it does anything for me. I even had some Otter Pops so I could be OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent most of the day trying to get this silly electronical gadget working and I was pretty certain that I hate computers and need them out of my life, but that was only a temporary thought. My computer, after all, has found an episode of Ghost Story from 1972 that scared the crap out of me when I was eight. I still remember &#8220;The Concrete Captain&#8221; and I wonder now if it would have the same effect on me now. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll stay up too late finding out. Fortunately, I didn&#8217;t stay up that late finishing Requiem For an Assassin. If I had known that it was the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2847\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I wonder if it&#8217;s still scary.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2849,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions\/2849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}