{"id":142,"date":"2005-06-23T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/2005\/06\/23\/awesome-2\/"},"modified":"2005-06-23T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T21:59:00","slug":"awesome-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/2005\/06\/23\/awesome-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/06\/23\/cpb.president.ap\/index.html\">House restores $100 million to public broadcasting<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>I guess all that petition-signing worked. <\/p>\n<p>Sesame Street, Electric Company, Square One, Carmen SanDiego&#8230; yes! Also, coincidentally, I just recently read Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s <i>Tipping Point<\/i>, which is a pretty mediocre book, but does mention that every single study done on Sesame Street has shown that it improves kids&#8217; reading comprehension and problem solving. And it&#8217;s so fun to watch! Even to this day I can sing the &#8220;1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12&#8221; song. <\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;m trying to find a good balance between work and play. Things were going well this week (read: I got lots of work done) but then today I started recording another song. Uh oh. Play is fun, though: I&#8217;m running again and it feels good, and I&#8217;m in three soccer leagues plus ultimate and tennis! Goodness. At least I&#8217;ll be physically in shape, if not mentally :). <\/p>\n<p>Last weekend I saw my friend Ben play with his crazy Tom Waits Accordion Orchestra in a bar in the city. It was a sight to see: ten accordions and a crazy old German lady belting out Tom Waits songs. So awesome! This weekend hopefully I&#8217;m going to see a production of Othello with my brother and his girlfriend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House restores $100 million to public broadcasting I guess all that petition-signing worked. Sesame Street, Electric Company, Square One, Carmen SanDiego&#8230; yes! Also, coincidentally, I just recently read Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s Tipping Point, which is a pretty mediocre book, but does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/2005\/06\/23\/awesome-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1c91x-2i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boopidy.com\/aj\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}