{"id":11428,"date":"2011-12-03T08:30:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T13:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=11428"},"modified":"2011-12-03T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T13:51:08","slug":"weekend-discussion-thread-brushes-with-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=11428","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Discussion Thread: Brushes with Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Alert reader Scott writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was wondering if anyone&#8217;s had any interesting encounters with the MST cast.<\/p>\n<p>A few years back, I invited Mary Jo up to Canada for the weekend to hold one of her humor seminars for our authors association. She was living in Minnesota at the time and I gave her a call to discuss particulars. It was kind of surreal talking with her on the phone and she started teasing me about the invitation saying: &#8220;So, how do I know you&#8217;re not an axe murderer?&#8221; When I picked her up at the airport several weeks later, I think the first words out of my mouth were: &#8220;Hi&#8230;I&#8217;m the axe murderer.&#8221; We got along famously after that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you have a story?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Alert reader Scott writes:<\/p>\n<p>I was wondering if anyone&#8217;s had any interesting encounters with the MST cast.<\/p>\n<p>A few years back, I invited Mary Jo up to Canada for the weekend to hold one of her humor seminars for our authors association. She was living in Minnesota at the time and I gave [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-msties","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}