{"id":463,"date":"2007-08-15T10:36:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T09:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2007\/08\/463\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T09:53:41","slug":"463","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2007\/08\/15\/463\/","title":{"rendered":"Clightnubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/story\/0,,2147663,00.html\">Charlie Brooker on nightclubs<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>> Even if you somehow avoid reproducing, isn&#8217;t it a lot of hard work for very little reward? Seven hours hopping about in a hellish, reverberating bunker in exchange for sharing 64 febrile, panting pelvic thrusts with someone who&#8217;ll snore and dribble into your pillow till 11 o&#8217;clock in the morning, before waking up beside you with their hair in a mess, blinking like a dizzy cat and smelling vaguely like a ham baguette? Really, why bother? Why not just stay at home punching yourself in the face? Invite a few friends round and make a night of it. It&#8217;ll be more fun than a club.<\/p>\n<p>I occasionally find myself in a nightclub. I wouldn&#8217;t say that I enjoy it, but sometimes I come away with an <a href=\"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2007\/06\/thursday-2\/\">amusing anecdote<\/a>. And at the end of the day, what would life be without amusing anecdotes? More to the point, what would this blog be without amusing anecdotes? (Yes, I know, just a series of 500&#215;375 photographs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Brooker on nightclubs&#8230; > Even if you somehow avoid reproducing, isn&#8217;t it a lot of hard work for very little reward? Seven hours hopping about in a hellish, reverberating bunker in exchange for sharing 64 febrile, panting pelvic thrusts with someone who&#8217;ll snore and dribble into your pillow till 11 o&#8217;clock in the morning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}