{"id":3558,"date":"2021-08-20T10:22:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T15:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2021-08-20T10:22:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T15:22:13","slug":"twenty-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/twenty-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Finishing thoughts, reactions, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, today&#8217;s the last day of this bout of feeding my writing compulsion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Except for forgetting to kick it off on day one, I&#8217;ve done it every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of these have been incredibly brief, but I&#8217;ve been <s>distracted<\/s>really busy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still need to figure out what to do to kind of actually take a break from it all for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I touched on it last year, but I am jealous of Dave Rubin&#8217;s moth of disconnection during August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How the hell he pulled that off as a political pundit, I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do wonder what it&#8217;d be like to have a week a bit like I had as a kid at Boy Scout camp. The world goes on outside, but I don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;m always listening, reading, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I care about things like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/gutfeld-ratings-win-colbert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TV audiences<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have the show listed on my DVR, but I can count on one hand the number of episodes I&#8217;ve gotten through.  it&#8217;s no <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_Eye_(talk_show)\">Red Eye<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering if part of what I don&#8217;t like about it is the strange socially-distanced set arrangement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who knows.  During the month, unfortunately, the utter stupidity of government&#8217;s response to a now rarely-fatal virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s true, meaning I haven&#8217;t seen corporate press corroboration, but purportedly, there&#8217;s a plan by truckers in Australia to just block all the roads to protest lockdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I should probably wrap this up, however.  My plans for the rest of the year are a bit unclear at this point.  I have my trip to NYC in October.  I&#8217;m planning to take the week between Christmas and New Year&#8217;s off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otherwise, no idea.  I need to fill my fantasy league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finishing thoughts, reactions, etc. So, today&#8217;s the last day of this bout of feeding my writing compulsion. Except for forgetting to kick it off on day one, I&#8217;ve done it every day. Some of these have been incredibly brief, but I&#8217;ve been distractedreally busy. I still need to figure out what to do to kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}