{"id":47,"date":"2001-09-03T08:41:48","date_gmt":"2001-09-03T13:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2001\/09\/03\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-27T19:58:30","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T23:58:30","slug":"quality-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2001\/09\/03\/quality-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Still awake.  I worked on organizing the bookshelves again, but it&#8217;s really quite boring, so I got up to H and stopped.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to work up the energy to go upstairs and fall asleep. In the meantime, I&#8217;ve been watching all these cartoons on PBS.  Did they have these when I was younger? I only remember live action shows &#8212; Sesame Street, Mr Rogers, Electric Company, Reading Rainbow.  But I have to say I am -incredibly- impressed with the quality of these shows.  Arthur I knew of, but I actually watched Clifford all the way through today, and it was very good.  Then this other show came on, called Sagwa, which was apparently written by Amy Tan. o.O  (I -know- there would never have been a cartoon set in China when I was little.)  The characters use words like &#8216;magistrate&#8217;.  Wow.  <\/p>\n<p>Why hasn&#8217;t PBS bought the rights to the World Masterpiece Theatre animes? They could do such a wonderful job with them.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still awake. I worked on organizing the bookshelves again, but it&#8217;s really quite boring, so I got up to H and stopped. I&#8217;ve been trying to work up the energy to go upstairs and fall asleep. In the meantime, I&#8217;ve been watching all these cartoons on PBS. Did they have these when I was younger? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}