{"id":313,"date":"2006-09-29T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/29\/tv-season-in-full-swing-hurrah\/"},"modified":"2006-09-29T11:30:15","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T18:30:15","slug":"tv-season-in-full-swing-hurrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"TV Season in Full Swing &#8212; Hurrah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did anyone else watch the first two episodes of <em>Jericho<\/em>? Jury&#8217;s still out, I think. It is spread with a thin layer of gooey cheese-like product that I am not necessarily opposed to but that I also wasn&#8217;t quite expecting. You know?<\/p>\n<p>One thing that cracks me up completely is that they seem to have borrowed their &#8220;heightened danger&#8221; music from, I don&#8217;t know, <em>Walker, Texas Ranger<\/em>? Whenever The Skeet is in a particularly sticky situation, the guitars start screeching with wild, blow &#8217;em up good-style abandon. It is awesome to behold. But also kind of distracting. You see how I&#8217;m conflicted?<\/p>\n<p>For my money, though, I am going to give the Best Sci-Fi Twist on a New Show Award to <em>Ugly Betty<\/em>. The ending of the first episode revealed that the supposedly dead former editor of the series&#8217; fictitious fashion rag is actually&#8230;being kept alive by Botoxy Vanessa Williams?! In some sort of&#8230;underground fortress?!? All swathed in bandages and such?! I don&#8217;t know. It was pretty much awesome and not expected and I loved it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did anyone else watch the first two episodes of Jericho? Jury&#8217;s still out, I think. It is spread with a thin layer of gooey cheese-like product that I am not necessarily opposed to but that I also wasn&#8217;t quite expecting. You know? One thing that cracks me up completely is that they seem to have [&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-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","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=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}