{"id":2840,"date":"2016-05-27T10:45:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T14:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2016-05-27T10:45:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T14:45:30","slug":"friday-27-may-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/05\/27\/friday-27-may-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 27 May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">10:45 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Barbara has been gone for five days, and is due back sometime tomorrow afternoon. Colin and I both miss her terribly. Last night we started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Netflix streaming. It&#8217;s been probably a dozen years since I watched it, and it holds up pretty well. I did cut my Netflix rating from 5 to 4 stars some time ago. Buffy is still good, but it&#8217;s not quite top drawer any more. My favorite thing about Buffy, then and now, is that the vampires are actually thinly-disguised stand-ins for progressives. What could be more appropriate? Progs ARE vampires, sucking the life out of American society. I like Buffy&#8217;s sarcastic PC term for progs: Undead-Americans. Buffy does to them what I&#8217;d like to do, if only I had super powers and a Mr. Pointy. Kill them all. Let Satan sort them out.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">With Barbara gone all week, I didn&#8217;t have time to do any prepping other than working on some lists of stuff I want to learn\/do\/acquire if, as, and when.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10:45 &#8211; Barbara has been gone for five days, and is due back sometime tomorrow afternoon. Colin and I both miss her terribly. Last night we started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Netflix streaming. It&#8217;s been probably a dozen years since I watched it, and it holds up pretty well. I did cut my Netflix rating from 5 to 4 stars some time ago. Buffy is still good, but it&#8217;s not quite top drawer any more.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/05\/27\/friday-27-may-2016\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Friday, 27 May 2016 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbara","category-prepping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}