{"id":536,"date":"2009-09-28T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/09\/28\/life-is-short\/"},"modified":"2009-09-28T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T16:48:00","slug":"life-is-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2009\/09\/28\/life-is-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am having a work meltdown what with beginning of term and impending book deadline. There will be more of the book up for comment shortly.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t6zgQH3tUKk\">here is a short video<\/a> that I think should be shown to every teenager in the land (without the XBox plugs). As a matter of fact, the ad was banned. I am not sure why.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I cannot think of a worse ad for computer games. Life&#8217;s short, so I should go and sod about on a computer console for a few hours?<\/p>\n<p>POSTSCRIPT. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/2028725.stm\">Here<\/a> is why it was banned. Actually I am not sure it should have been banned. I am not sure the reasons given are good reasons, or even the real reasons people complained. My guess is, this very short film manages to present a rather horrific aspect of the human condition in a way that many people would prefer not to have to think about. I am not sure they have a right to be protected from having to think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am having a work meltdown what with beginning of term and impending book deadline. There will be more of the book up for comment shortly. In the meantime here is a short video that I think should be shown to every teenager in the land (without the XBox plugs). As a matter of fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}