{"id":2314,"date":"2014-07-10T20:21:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T03:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2014-07-14T10:17:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T17:17:17","slug":"my-third-appearance-on-11-points-countdown-fun-things-ruined-by-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2314","title":{"rendered":"My third appearance on 11 Points Countdown: Fun Things Ruined by Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Js-5DiHKD8w\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made a return to\u00a0<em>11 Points Countdown<\/em> for a two-parter: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.11points.com\/Countdown\/11_Things_That_Used_to_Be_Fun_But_Got_Ruined_by_Technology_-_11_Points_Countdown\">11 Things That Used to Be Fun But Got Ruined by Technology<\/a>&#8220;. You can see my previous turns, (genuine) beer in hand across from host Sam Greenspan, on my <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?page_id=2\">about page<\/a>: first, on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=716\">the benefits of high gas prices<\/a>, and second,\u00a0on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=937\">underwhelming United States landmarks<\/a>. But this one has all manner of talk about <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>, Brentano&#8217;s,\u00a0vellum paper, computers with spinning wheels, and strolls through the aisles of Blockbuster Video. (I may have mentioned\u00a0<em>Griffin and Sabine<\/em> somewhere along the line, but I think it hit the cutting room floor.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;ve made a return to\u00a011 Points Countdown for a two-parter: &#8220;11 Things That Used to Be Fun But Got Ruined by Technology&#8220;. You can see my previous turns, (genuine) beer in hand across from host Sam Greenspan, on my about page: first, on\u00a0the benefits of high gas prices, and second,\u00a0on underwhelming United States landmarks. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions\/2323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}