{"id":301,"date":"2005-03-06T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-06T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/2005\/3\/it_lives.html"},"modified":"2005-03-06T12:51:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-06T11:51:00","slug":"it_lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/2005\/03\/06\/it_lives\/","title":{"rendered":"it lives!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ok, ok, yes, yes.  i know.  not that &#8220;the apparent demise of c-d&#8221; caused anyone any alarm or anything &#8211; really, people, i could have been bleeding in a ditch somewhere!  and did you care?  did you?  no.  harrumph.<\/p>\n<p>anyway, i&#8217;m back.  by way of excuse i can only offer the in<i>sane<\/i>ly long time it takes to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homecall.co.uk\/ukoffer\/broadband.asp\" title=\"stupid homecall\" target=\"_blank\">broadband<\/a> hooked up in this country, in combination with the fact that there seem to be three <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/airportexpress\/\" title=\"mmmmm.... wifi.....\" target=\"_blank\">airport<\/a> networks in this building, but none of them are connected to the internet.  puzzling?  yes.  frustrating?  in the extreme.  but fortunately, the wait is over.<\/p>\n<p>of course, i don&#8217;t actually intend to post anything of real interest today. consider this a proof-of-life trailer of some really lame sort &#8211; but soon, i intend to regale you with:<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.willyrussell.com\/blood1.html\" title=\"learn how willy wrote it!\" target=\"_blank\">Blood Brothers<\/a>: A Review<\/b><br \/>\nthis was, no shit, one of the three worst shows i&#8217;ve ever seen in my entire life.  both of my companions to this wretched piece of shit agree.  the only thing that i can think of (in other words, that i haven&#8217;t completely blocked out due to the trauma) that was worse was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starlight-express.net\/index2.htm\" title=\"the germans love it\" target=\"_blank\">Starlight Express<\/a>, on which i wasted three hours of my sixteenth birthday in new york.  which is probably why it stuck.<\/p>\n<p><b>Tales from the BC<\/b><br \/>\nwe&#8217;ve moved, my division.  out to scenic, desolate W12, where we have a lovely view of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmprisonservice.gov.uk\/prisoninformation\/locateaprison\/prison.asp?id=404,15,2,15,404,0\" title=\"wormwood scrubs prison\" target=\"_blank\">prison<\/a>, a really dodgy council estate, and (at a distance) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brent.gov.uk\/multimed.nsf\/8fd01c78694b567380256c4000580d4f\/ed463147732121e180256c4000583f02!OpenDocument\" title=\"wembley webcam - see how the weather is!\" target=\"_blank\">wembley stadium<\/a>.  the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadcast-technology.com\/projects\/bbc_london\/\" title=\"the bc\" target=\"_blank\">building<\/a>, though at first glance simply stark and depressing, offers endless amusement.  yea verily, it is a theme park of modern office design.  we&#8217;ve got isolation podules.  we&#8217;ve got muppet walls.  we&#8217;ve got cacti on wheels and a spittin&#8217; rail and secret elevators that go nowhere in particular.  we&#8217;ve got it all, folks, and we&#8217;re publishing our very own guide.  soon.<\/p>\n<p>while i know that things are better in threes, i&#8217;m going to leave it at two for now because i can&#8217;t think of a really good third.  <\/p>\n<p>but i&#8217;m back.  and london still completely rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ok, ok, yes, yes. i know. not that &#8220;the apparent demise of c-d&#8221; caused anyone any alarm or anything &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}