{"id":216,"date":"2006-07-11T21:35:14","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T04:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/11\/super-sidekick\/"},"modified":"2006-07-11T21:35:14","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T04:35:14","slug":"super-sidekick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Super Sidekick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Smallville<\/i> has <a href=\"http:\/\/community.tvguide.com\/thread.jspa?threadID=800003533\">found their Jimmy Olsen<\/a> in the form of Aaron Ashmore (Troy Vandegraff to you <i>Veronica Mars<\/i>ians). I used to have a tragic mental block and thought 1) Shawn Ashmore and Shane West were the same person (no, seriously, I thought that for YEARS) and 2) that Aaron Ashmore was either also the same person or the twin of the Shawn\/Shane hybrid. I was right about at least one thing (Shawn and Aaron being twins).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. The Ashmores are the ones with the geekly credentials, and this strikes me as very good casting indeed. I also like the idea of pairing him with sweet Chloe, who really deserves a break after all these years of mooning over Clark. (By the way: is the debate still raging on about Chloe being the REAL Lois Lane? I thought maybe the show producers had squashed this theory at some point, but it remains one of my favorites, even though I like Erica Durance).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smallville has found their Jimmy Olsen in the form of Aaron Ashmore (Troy Vandegraff to you Veronica Marsians). I used to have a tragic mental block and thought 1) Shawn Ashmore and Shane West were the same person (no, seriously, I thought that for YEARS) and 2) that Aaron Ashmore was either also the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}