{"id":50,"date":"2007-09-25T11:42:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T15:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/2007\/09\/25\/mediocrity\/"},"modified":"2007-09-25T11:42:06","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T15:42:06","slug":"mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/2007\/09\/25\/mediocrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediocrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night kicked off <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/2007\/09\/22\/new-beginnings\/\">a week of television premiers<\/a> with the second season of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Heroes\/\">Heroes<\/a>. My wife and I watched (in real time; that&#8217;s an important distinction in the TiVo age). We went to bed shortly after, since we&#8217;re now old and perpetually exhausted. Our conversation went as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Me: &#8220;So, were you impressed by Heroes tonight?&#8221;<br \/>\nMindy: &#8220;No.&#8221;<br \/>\nMe: &#8220;Me neither.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was short span of silence before our conversation continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Me: &#8220;Have we ever been impressed by Heroes?&#8221;<br \/>\nMindy: &#8220;No, not really.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The magic of television is how it captivates you with nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night kicked off a week of television premiers with the second season of Heroes. My wife and I watched (in real time; that&#8217;s an important distinction in the TiVo age). We went to bed shortly after, since we&#8217;re now old and perpetually exhausted. Our conversation went as follows: Me: &#8220;So, were you impressed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}