{"id":590,"date":"2004-01-19T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-19T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/590"},"modified":"2004-01-19T08:36:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-19T12:36:00","slug":"the-oc-marathon-commences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/590","title":{"rendered":"The O.C. Marathon Commences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bowing to peer pressure (and succumbing to the indefinable allure of Adam Brody), I began my catch-up marathon viewing of ‘The O.C.’ last night, starting with episodes 1 & 2.<\/p>\n

I take it as an excellent sign that my only real complaint so far is that in episode one, when Marissa passes out drunk, both Summer and Ryan leave her lying on her back, in prime position to choke to death on her own vomit a la Jimi Hendrix, rather than performing the Bacchus Manoeuver<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Then again, they also showed these teens smoking up a storm, snorting cocaine and driving SUVs, so I guess educating the audience on safe behaviour isn’t exactly a priority for the show. <\/p>\n

Did anyone else notice that Ryan’s last name is Atwood, and at the party someone says “I hear you’re from Canada?” I just thought that was amusing. <\/p>\n

Favorite line so far: “Oh wow, I should really learn how to knock. Just in case there’s a threesome going on. In the bathroom.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bowing to peer pressure (and succumbing to the indefinable allure of Adam Brody), I began my catch-up marathon viewing of ‘The O.C.’ last night, starting with episodes 1 & 2. I take it as an excellent sign that my only real complaint so far is that in episode one, when Marissa passes out drunk, both […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}