{"id":99,"date":"2003-12-25T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-26T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2003-12-25T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-26T03:58:00","slug":"i-wish-there-was-a-way-of-stopping-the-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"I wish there was a way of stopping the bad news."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas to whoever is reading this, and I hope your holidays are going well. But it isn&#8217;t going all that well for everyone. My neighbor passed away this morning. My friend&#8217;s sister is in the hospital with the &#8216;flu and possible heart problems. There isn&#8217;t much I can do but try to be supportive.<\/p>\n<p>But today, all I did was watch movies, movies, movies. <b>Scrooge<\/b> again, <b>A Christmas Story<\/b>, <b>Vertigo<\/b>, <b>Arthur&#8217;s Perfect Christmas<\/b>, and parts of something that seemed like a Korean kung-fu movie called <b>Volcano High<\/b> that was on MTV. I&#8217;ll get away from the TV tomorrow. (I have to help a friend fix his DishTV installation.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas to whoever is reading this, and I hope your holidays are going well. But it isn&#8217;t going all that well for everyone. My neighbor passed away this morning. My friend&#8217;s sister is in the hospital with the &#8216;flu and possible heart problems. There isn&#8217;t much I can do but try to be supportive. But today, all I did was watch movies, movies, movies. Scrooge again, A Christmas Story, Vertigo, Arthur&#8217;s Perfect Christmas, and parts of something that seemed like a Korean kung-fu movie called Volcano High that was on MTV. I&#8217;ll get away from the TV tomorrow. (I have to help a friend fix his DishTV installation.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}