{"id":711,"date":"2002-11-20T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2002-11-20T18:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/11\/20\/711.html"},"modified":"2002-11-20T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2002-11-20T18:38:08","slug":"timewasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/11\/20\/timewasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Timewasters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I should have spent this morning editing. And I did a little editing, but\n  I also fell afoul of a website. A few entertaining bits from Pointless Waste\n  of Time:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointlesswasteoftime.com\/film\/50reasons.html\">50 Reasons\nLord of the Rings Sucks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>...<\/p>\n  <p>8.  <font color=#008000><b>Gold: The Stretchy Element.<\/b><\/font> The ring, which is seen to be at least two inches in diameter at the\n    beginning to fit the polish sausage-sized finger of Sauron, suddenly <b>fits\n    Frodo's child-sized finger<\/b> later.  I guess this movie takes place in\n    a world where rings <b>magically change sizes on their own.<\/b><\/p>\n  <p><b>...<\/b><\/p>\n  <p>13.  <font color=#008000><b>Did someone say plot hole?<\/b><\/font> Liv Tyler's character is seen easily defeating <b>nine strong supernatural beings<\/b>, even though she is clearly <b>a woman.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Can't wait for Mary Anne's erotic Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novel? This may\n  tide you over: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointlesswasteoftime.com\/Game\/intro.html\">Max\n  Roboto: The Case of the Tibernium Vortex Orb.<\/a> Warning: silly and violent\n  (and not erotic).<\/p>\n<p>&quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pointlesswasteoftime.com\/iraq.html\">The Lies Behind\n  the Upcoming Iraqi War<\/a>&quot; is a fine  conspiracy-theory\n  rant:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>Do you want to continue, or are you <b>a mindless sheep<\/b> of the <b>New World Order<\/b> content to be <b>herded<\/b> and have your <b>body hair shaved every spring?<\/b>\n  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have spent this morning editing. And I did a little editing, but I also fell afoul of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}