{"id":24461,"date":"2019-04-19T06:18:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24461"},"modified":"2019-04-19T06:18:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T11:18:13","slug":"an-uncomfortable-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/19\/an-uncomfortable-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"An Uncomfortable Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last evening, my twelve-year-old son asked me a question that took me aback and led to a stammering, rambling, and incomplete response that probably left the boy more befuddled than when he asked.<\/p>\n<p>He asked me for an overview of the Terminator story.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I have only seen the first three movies (of five, apparently), the television series, and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/book-report-terminator-3-terminator-dreams-by-aaron-allston-2003\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read one of the books<\/a>.  So I&#8217;m not an expert.<\/p>\n<p>I could made it through explaining Skynet, sort of, and the plot of the first two movies and a bit about the television series, but, honestly, it&#8217;s hard to explain them all in gestalt.  It&#8217;s probably best to explain each movie or property discretely and then gloss over the problems in the timelines and continua.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think he got it.  I&#8217;m not sure I do.  Perhaps the best explanation is the simplest.  <em>Intelligent unstoppable killing machines travel time to kill people who are troublesome in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Man, I wish he would have asked me to explain something I understand better.  Like women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last evening, my twelve-year-old son asked me a question that took me aback and led to a stammering, rambling, and incomplete response that probably left the boy more befuddled than when he asked. He asked me for an overview of the Terminator story. I mean, I have only seen the first three movies (of five, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24462,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24461\/revisions\/24462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}