{"id":686,"date":"2008-04-28T11:31:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T16:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.deadsquid.com\/?p=686"},"modified":"2008-04-28T11:31:54","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T16:31:54","slug":"all-these-things-that-i-have-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2008\/04\/28\/all-these-things-that-i-have-done\/","title":{"rendered":"all these things that I have done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so, I got in to my hotel last night at around 10:30 (I&#8217;m on the left coast, so it felt like 01:30) and had every intention of crashing. before I nodded off, I flipped on the tube, and stumbled across the premiere of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/weta\/carrier\/\">Carrier<\/a>&#8221;, PBS&#8217;s new documentary that captures a tour of duty aboard the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Nimitz_(CVN-68)\">USS Nimitz<\/a>, a US aircraft carrier.<\/p>\n<p>the show runs ten episodes, and last night&#8217;s introduced viewers to the wide variety of people on board. the emphasis was on how the whole thing wouldn&#8217;t work unless everyone did their job, and how big the pool of &#8220;everyone&#8221; is. the interviews are pretty blunt (in a good way), and I think my favorite bit was one of the airmen explaining that because of the large number of 18-20 year olds, the amount of drama is a lot like high school.<\/p>\n<p>I got sucked in, and ended up watching the whole thing. it was worth the feeling totally tired this morning, and I&#8217;ll be looking for it over the next couple months. the show also gets my nod as <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=XUVY-jYzDy8\">one of the best intros<\/a> (and choices of music to set the tone &#8211; &#8220;gotta help me out&#8221;) to a program of any kind in a very long time. (the youtube quality doesn&#8217;t do it justice, but you get the idea)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so, I got in to my hotel last night at around 10:30 (I&#8217;m on the left coast, so it felt like 01:30) and had every intention of crashing. before I nodded off, I flipped on the tube, and stumbled across the premiere of &#8220;Carrier&#8221;, PBS&#8217;s new documentary that captures a tour of duty aboard the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}