{"id":55,"date":"2002-10-08T14:52:42","date_gmt":"2002-10-08T22:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jokeofalltrades.com\/root\/?p=55"},"modified":"2002-10-08T14:52:42","modified_gmt":"2002-10-08T22:52:42","slug":"miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/2002\/10\/08\/miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"Miscellany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI rented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000067FP2\/ref=pd_ser_asin_2\/\/002-9188817-5048056?v=glance\" title=\"&#8216;V: The Final Battle&#8217; on DVD at Amazon\">V: The Final Battle<\/a> the other day and have enjoyed revisiting what was easily one of my all-time favorite shows growing up. I bought the original miniseries a few months ago and am heartened to find they have released the follow-up. I will be supremely happy when they release the actual TV series&#8230; The acting is bad, and the effects are laughable at best (it&#8217;s hard to remember that such things could have been <em>believable<\/em> back then, but I was a fan of Buck Rogers, too), but I highly recommend the series to anyone who wants to relive a bit of the mid-eighties kitsch in the comfort of their own home theatre. Good stuff.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOn another note entirely: I have moved. Actually, I&#8217;m mid-move. <em>In medias res<\/em>. But the new address is on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jokeofalltrades.com\/contact.phtml\">contact page<\/a>, if you&#8217;re interested.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"np\">\nNP: Aliz&eacute;e, <i>Moi&#8230;Lolita<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rented V: The Final Battle the other day and have enjoyed revisiting what was easily one of my all-time favorite shows growing up. I bought the original miniseries a few months ago and am heartened to find they have released the follow-up. I will be supremely happy when they release the actual TV series&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}