{"id":1466,"date":"2017-04-18T22:46:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T04:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2017-04-18T22:46:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T04:46:43","slug":"a-new-toy-and-a-couple-of-horror-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1466","title":{"rendered":"A new toy and a couple of horror stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently was given an old Windows XP laptop. As XP is no longer maintained or secure, I&#8217;ve decided to play with a Linux-based OS, specifically, <a href=\"https:\/\/elementary.io\">Elementary<\/a>. It ought to be educational.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also run across a couple of horror-related items.<\/p>\n<p>In the first, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pmiQ6SJYX-M\">Warner Brothers is being sued<\/a> for big money over the &#8220;Conjuring&#8221; movies, by an author who claims he has a prior, exclusive, contract with the people who provided the source information. The fun part is, apparently the only way WB can win is by proving the existence of ghosts and witches.<\/p>\n<p>The other involves a family who got together to play a horror-themed desktop game, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/blog\/2123\/Family-Plays-Horror-Board-Game-And-Gets-More-Than-They-Bargained-For\">ended up with more excitement than they expected<\/a>. I have a friend who says he has a similar story about watching The Exorcist the first time while attending a conference at Walter Reed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently was given an old Windows XP laptop. As XP is no longer maintained or secure, I&#8217;ve decided to play with a Linux-based OS, specifically, Elementary. It ought to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}