{"id":9219,"date":"2011-04-11T13:09:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T18:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9219"},"modified":"2011-04-11T13:09:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T18:09:55","slug":"how-rapidly-my-birthday-gift-became-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/11\/how-rapidly-my-birthday-gift-became-obsolete\/","title":{"rendered":"How Rapidly My Birthday Gift Became Obsolete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my birthday, my beautiful wife gave me this:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B000GI3RZ6&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Complete Red Dwarf series on DVD.  I watched these back when I recorded them off of KETC, the PBS station in St. Louis, when they came on after Doctor Who on Sunday nights, so when I was reminded of them for some reason or another, I put it on my Amazon wish list.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the news is that this set will be incomplete <a href=\"http:\/\/llewblog.squarespace.com\/red-dwarf\/2011\/4\/10\/smegtastic.html\" target=\"_blank\">very soon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In November this year we start to record a new series of 6 episodes, presently titled Red Dwarf X. I\u2019m not sure of the Broadcast dates but we finish recording them in early February 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This rather complements the Christmas gift I received in the middle 1990s of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0681403225\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0681403225\" target=\"_blank\"><em>More Than Complete Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em><\/a> before Douglas Adams was actually done milking the series.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson learned: If you buy a collection of British humor marked &#8220;complete,&#8221; it is probably not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my birthday, my beautiful wife gave me this: The Complete Red Dwarf series on DVD. I watched these back when I recorded them off of KETC, the PBS station in St. Louis, when they came on after Doctor Who on Sunday nights, so when I was reminded of them for some reason or another, [&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-9219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219","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=9219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9221,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219\/revisions\/9221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}