{"id":702,"date":"2011-02-17T19:05:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T00:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-25T19:53:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T00:53:05","slug":"takes-from-the-darkside-my-ghost-writer-the-vampire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/television\/takes-from-the-darkside-my-ghost-writer-the-vampire\/","title":{"rendered":"My Ghost Writer, the Vampire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My Ghost Writer, the Vampire&#8221; was adapted from one of my comic-book stories that initially brought me to his attention of the <em>Tales From the Darkside <\/em> folks. It was based on a story of the same name that had appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/comic-books\/the-unexpected-197-april-1980\/\"><em>The Unexpected<\/em> #197<\/a> back in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>In the episode, which first aired February 1, 1987, Jeff Conaway portrayed a hack horror writer, while Roy Dotrice was the bloodsucker who traded his vampiric knowledge in exchange  for a place to hide during the  day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My Ghost Writer, the Vampire&#8221; was adapted from one of my comic-book stories that initially brought me to his attention of the Tales From the Darkside folks. It was based on a story of the same name that had appeared in The Unexpected #197 back in 1980. In the episode, which first aired February 1, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703,"parent":32,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-702","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/702\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}