{"id":4566,"date":"2011-07-22T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4566"},"modified":"2011-07-22T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T20:59:00","slug":"in-praise-of-the-old-tried-and-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4566","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of the old \u201cTried and True\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some late lunchtime news chum, in praise of what has gone before:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>You Got Balls!<\/b> Selectric balls, that is. <a href=\"http:\/\/ladailymirror.com\/2011\/07\/21\/for-font-freaks\/\" target=\"_blank\">The LA Daily Mirror, in honor of the new Selectric stamp, reminds us of those wonderful fonts of old: Orater, Script, and Courier<\/a>. Seeing those fonts made me think of working in APL.\n<li><b>Bodily Fluids<\/b>. The NY Times has an interesting article on embalmers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/21\/business\/despite-cancer-risk-embalmers-stay-with-formaldehyde.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Dispite the health risks, they still prefer formaldehyde to preserve bodies<\/a>.\n<li><b>What\u2019s Old is New Again<\/b>. Ah, the 1990s. They\u2019re coming back. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/nickelodeon-offers-90s-nostalgia-with-kenan-and-kel-all-that-and-more\/2011\/07\/20\/gIQAOdmkRI_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nickolodeon is bringing back Kenan and Kel, All That, and other 1990s programs for a \u201cThe 90s are all that\u201d block<\/a>. Additionally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/television\/news\/2011-07-22-beavis-butthead-mtv_n.htm\" target=\"_blank\">MTV is bringing back Bevis and Butthead<\/a>.<\/ul>\n<p>P.S.: (h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/lyahdan.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">lyahdan<\/a> on G+) Now that\u2019s its over, lets take a moment to praise the hero of a recently ended seven-part series (eight, if you watch the movies): <a href=\"http:\/\/globalcomment.com\/2011\/in-praise-of-hermione-granger-series\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hermione Granger<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some late lunchtime news chum, in praise of what has gone before: You Got Balls! Selectric balls, that is. The LA Daily Mirror, in honor of the new Selectric stamp, reminds us of those wonderful fonts of old: Orater, Script, and Courier. Seeing those fonts made me think of working in APL. Bodily Fluids. The <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4566\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-lj-xfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}