{"id":12877,"date":"2008-05-21T07:58:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T11:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12877"},"modified":"2014-01-15T10:07:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T15:07:55","slug":"scary-newspaper-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/21\/scary-newspaper-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Scary newspaper people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/19\/AR2008051902831.html\" target=\"_blank\">In an article in yesterday&#8217;s <i>Washington Post<\/i> titled &#8220;Where Are the Shows of Yesterday?,&#8221;<\/a> which ran through all of last season&#8217;s television series that didn&#8217;t survive, columnist Lisa de Moraes took the time to squeeze in this slam at science-fiction fans when she got around to discussing the casualties over at CBS:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vampire detective drama <i>Moonlight,<\/i> meanwhile, was gutted before it ever aired but for all the recasting, etc., still wound up wildly mediocre. Up to the end of last week, some of its scary sci-fi-people fans were still holding out hope it would rise like the phoenix at another network.<\/p>\n<p>Other CBS casualties include <i>Cane,<\/i> <i>Shark,<\/i> <i>Welcome to the Captain<\/i> and the apocalyptic <i>Jericho,<\/i> despite the best efforts of its scary-sci-fi-people fan base.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article in yesterday&#8217;s Washington Post titled &#8220;Where Are the Shows of Yesterday?,&#8221; which ran through all of last season&#8217;s television series that didn&#8217;t survive, columnist Lisa de Moraes took the time to squeeze in this slam at science-fiction fans when she got around to discussing the casualties over at CBS: Vampire detective drama [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=12877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12878,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12877\/revisions\/12878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}