{"id":3367,"date":"2011-12-22T09:36:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T17:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2011-12-22T09:36:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T17:36:39","slug":"merry-christmas-from-the-cable-channels-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/merry-christmas-from-the-cable-channels-ha\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas from the cable channels? Ha!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching non-stop murders\u00a0 because the idiot ditty on &#8220;How it&#8217;s made&#8221; erodes the brain, I have no interest in Battles of WWI at this moment, and one more bit about haunted hotels, Al Capone, Atlantis, or the Bermuda Triangle, and I am going to turn extremely un-merry. I have been watching non-stop murders for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Mmm. What else do we have? The Apocalypse. That&#8217;s cheery.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not asking for the umpteenth rendition of Frosty the Snowman, but I&#8217;d like something nice and uplifting. The Apocalypse? Gimme a break! We&#8217;re going to hear plenty of that upcoming&#8212;the Mayan calendar thing: I&#8217;ve heard the modern Maya are planning a fiesta to continue past the day&#8212;and figuring that&#8217;s the end of the world is beyond silly. The calendar-maker planned it for the rock he had and thought, &#8220;Y&#8217;know, carrying this on another full cycle is just overkill. I think the chief will be happy with this one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8212;we&#8217;re now pretty well Christmassed-up. Got a couple of errands to run. But mostly we&#8217;re good. And I&#8217;m back at work on the novel.<\/p>\n<p>Hope all is well with you guys!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching non-stop murders\u00a0 because the idiot ditty on &#8220;How it&#8217;s made&#8221; erodes the brain, I have no interest in Battles of WWI at this moment, and one more bit about haunted hotels, Al Capone, Atlantis, or the Bermuda Triangle, and I am going to turn extremely un-merry. I have been watching non-stop murders for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}