{"id":692,"date":"2020-01-11T22:30:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T22:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2020-01-13T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T09:49:06","slug":"caught-like-flies-preserved-for-tomorrows-jewelry-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/11\/caught-like-flies-preserved-for-tomorrows-jewelry-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught like flies, preserved for tomorrow&#8217;s jewelry, again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So&#8230; I\u2019ve not been out the house since Wednesday and I got back from hospital. Can\u2019t say the pain in my abdomen\u2019s improved at all. Much of the day I\u2019ve either been reading or finished watching the first season of <em>The X-file<\/em>s. Alice is doing everything &#8211; even though she\u2019s tired &#8211; and I feel terrible I can\u2019t help out with the boys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of <em>The X-files<\/em>, I\u2019ve been slowly watching the episodes from the start. I haven\u2019t watched them for over 15 years. When the show first aired on BBC2 in the 1990s, it was essential viewing for me. I think the first episode I saw was <em>Squeeze<\/em> back in October 1994. At the time I didn\u2019t know what the programme was and even thought it was a documentary series a little like <em>Arthur C. Clark\u2019s Mysterious World<\/em> (which is a whole other delight from my childhood). A<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"285\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_8227.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_8227.jpg 285w, https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/img_8227-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/><figcaption>You can\u2019t watch <em>The X-files<\/em> without the guide.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>couple of seasons in and I\u2019d bought the first edition of <em>X-treme Possibilities<\/em> by Paul Cornell, Martin Day and Keith Topping. It was great: an enthusiastic, light-hearted analysis of episodes from the first two seasons of the show. At the time a great deal of the fun of <em>The X-files<\/em> was speculation on the nature of the actual comspiracy. The writers were great in giving their analysis and suggesting what it all meant. I\u2019m sure I graduated up to <em>About Time<\/em>, the <em>Doctor Who<\/em> guides afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyhow, where I\u2019m getting to is that I started re-watching the <em>X-files<\/em> after pocking up a secondhand copy of <em>X-treme Possibilities <\/em>(this time with commentary on the first five seasons! whoa!). I didn\u2019t watch the series after the sixth season &#8211; except for a couple of episodes &#8211; and doubt I will again. Something about the series altered: a mixture of the production moving to California from Vancouver and the change in culture and politics after 911. The sort of conspiracies that the show imagined seemed to prefigure how people felt after the Twin Towers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; I\u2019ve not been out the house since Wednesday and I got back from hospital. Can\u2019t say the pain in my abdomen\u2019s improved at all. Much of the day I\u2019ve either been reading or finished watching the first season of The X-files. Alice is doing everything &#8211; even though she\u2019s tired &#8211; and I feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}