{"id":103,"date":"2008-08-12T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2008\/08\/12\/these-are-strange-times-they-all-are-strange-times\/"},"modified":"2008-08-12T08:00:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T08:00:39","slug":"these-are-strange-times-they-all-are-strange-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2008\/08\/12\/these-are-strange-times-they-all-are-strange-times\/","title":{"rendered":"These Are Strange Times&#8230;They All Are Strange Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/11\/business\/media\/11mag.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;ref=business&amp;adxnnlx=1218549353-aLK88lDtZXjD+wHfk8d7Ng\" title=\"No more big Stone.\">Rolling Stone is losing the large format<\/a>. This would really bum me out if I hadn&#39;t stopped reading it right after tenth grade and my classic rock phase ended.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.boingboing.net\/2008\/08\/11\/brutul-lagerhead-mak.html\" title=\"Black &amp; Tan Turtle\">Black &amp; Tan Turtle<\/a> reminds me that I haven&#39;t had a Black &amp; Tan in years.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/Monday%27s%20episode%20recap\" title=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/entertainment\/tv\/index.ssf\/2008\/08\/mad_men_the_benefactor_hey_you.html\">Mad Men season 2<\/a> is even better than season 1. It&#39;s just so freakin&#39; good. Don Draper is now the hero to which we all aspire. I dream of nonchalantly teaching my five-year-old how to make a Tom Collins from the divan.<\/li>\n<li>Boy, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/nphotos\/Most-Emailed-Photos-Russia-Beijing-2008-Olympics-Brazil-Beijing\/ss\/1756\/im:\/080811\/483\/e043f08dc0724869929b34d42bcfd539\/\" title=\"Brazilian Bottom\">other than this woman<\/a>, the Olympians sure are weird. <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hQVA6MrVoE0O_p_lu9SwFnQi8BAQ\" title=\"The Chinese women's gymnastics team are either all six years old\">The Chinese women&#39;s gymnastics team are either all six years old<\/a> or really, really weird. And there is no more 10 anymore, just some weird 16. Eff that. When I watch gymnastics (which is the result of some serious puppy dog eyes by my wife) all I can shout is &quot;Kerri Strug did it better&#8230;on ONE LEG!&quot; Seriously, why don&#39;t they just replay that . Man, the only thing I hate worse than the Summer Olympics is the Winter Olympics.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, today&#39;s pic is some gorillas, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&amp;ct=:ePkh8BM9E0Kxo1iIRYgpNQduXS7ETgawhTBrjARWtbaeaDYrqpe1kb6_L87m2y82oCYAuZwQ_Q\/6-0&amp;fp=48a18b778623615c&amp;ei=YKWhSI7_ApPKywS0vI3wCw&amp;url=http%3A\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/7544967.stm&amp;cid=1233692812&amp;sig2=rutnJueZPz7zFsVxpS5yng&amp;usg=AFQjCNEL0mwRzMTIY_fGYClaGrF8OqCgJg\" title=\"Gorillas Missed\">which apparently there are a lot more of<\/a> than we thought. Huh.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/11\/business\/media\/11mag.html?_r=1&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;ref=business&amp;adxnnlx=1218549353-aLK88lDtZXjD+wHfk8d7Ng\" title=\"No more big Stone.\">Rolling Stone is losing the large format<\/a>. This would really bum me out if I hadn&#39;t stopped reading it right after tenth grade and my classic rock phase ended.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.boingboing.net\/2008\/08\/11\/brutul-lagerhead-mak.html\" title=\"Black &amp; Tan Turtle\">Black &amp; Tan Turtle<\/a> reminds me that I haven&#39;t had a Black &amp; Tan in years.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/Monday%27s%20episode%20recap\" title=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/entertainment\/tv\/index.ssf\/2008\/08\/mad_men_the_benefactor_hey_you.html\">Mad Men season 2<\/a> is even better than season 1. It&#39;s just so freakin&#39; good. Don Draper is now the hero to which we all aspire. I dream of nonchalantly teaching my five-year-old how to make a Tom Collins from the divan.<\/li>\n<li>Boy, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/nphotos\/Most-Emailed-Photos-Russia-Beijing-2008-Olympics-Brazil-Beijing\/ss\/1756\/im:\/080811\/483\/e043f08dc0724869929b34d42bcfd539\/\" title=\"Brazilian Bottom\">other than this woman<\/a>, the Olympians sure are weird. <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hQVA6MrVoE0O_p_lu9SwFnQi8BAQ\" title=\"The Chinese women's gymnastics team are either all six years old\">The Chinese women&#39;s gymnastics team are either all six years old<\/a> or really, really weird. And there is no more 10 anymore, just some weird 16. Eff that. When I watch gymnastics (which is the result of some serious puppy dog eyes by my wife) all I can shout is &quot;Kerri Strug did it better&#8230;on ONE LEG!&quot; Seriously, why don&#39;t they just replay that . Man, the only thing I hate worse than the Summer Olympics is the Winter Olympics.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, today&#39;s pic is some gorillas, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&amp;ct=:ePkh8BM9E0Kxo1iIRYgpNQduXS7ETgawhTBrjARWtbaeaDYrqpe1kb6_L87m2y82oCYAuZwQ_Q\/6-0&amp;fp=48a18b778623615c&amp;ei=YKWhSI7_ApPKywS0vI3wCw&amp;url=http%3A\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/7544967.stm&amp;cid=1233692812&amp;sig2=rutnJueZPz7zFsVxpS5yng&amp;usg=AFQjCNEL0mwRzMTIY_fGYClaGrF8OqCgJg\" title=\"Gorillas Missed\">which apparently there are a lot more of<\/a> than we thought. Huh.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}