{"id":526,"date":"2005-01-18T18:48:15","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T16:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=526"},"modified":"2005-02-04T07:21:35","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T05:21:35","slug":"sigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/18\/sigh\/","title":{"rendered":"sigh"},"content":{"rendered":"

And, quoting myself from 7 march 2004<\/a>, “you know those times when you have loads to do, but don’t want to do any of it, and despite this situation, you are bored out of your wits, and still can’t manage to do anything besides surf the web and read through old emails?”<\/p>\n

that’s me, right now.<\/p>\n

But when it really comes down to it, television without pity<\/a> (especially omar, who does the smallville episodes) is just the best waste of time of the new millenium.<\/p>\n

First production meeting for a new piece with PJ Sabbagha and the FATC<\/a> tomorrow. woot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And, quoting myself from 7 march 2004, “you know those times when you have loads to do, but don’t want to do any of it, and despite this situation, you are bored out of your wits, and still can’t manage to do anything besides surf the web and read through old emails?” that’s me, right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9blZT-sigh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":309,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/07\/thats-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":526,"position":0},"title":"that’s me","author":"nathaniel","date":"07 March 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"you know those times when you have loads to do, but don't want to do any of it, and despite this situation, you are bored out of your wits, and still can't manage to do anything besides surf the web and read through old emails? that's me, right now.","rel":"","context":"In "uncategorical"","block_context":{"text":"uncategorical","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/old-categories\/uncategorical\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":261,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/03\/reagan-was-not-a-saint-when-he-was-alive-nor-is-he-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":526,"position":1},"title":"reagan was not a saint when he was alive, nor is he now","author":"nathaniel","date":"03 January 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Conservatives want Reagan to replace FDR on U.S. dimes - WTF? 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