{"id":1179,"date":"2003-12-30T21:13:22","date_gmt":"2003-12-31T05:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2004-10-27T21:20:46","modified_gmt":"2004-10-28T05:20:46","slug":"you-cant-take-the-sky-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1179","title":{"rendered":"you can&#8217;t take the sky from me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Netflix I&#8217;ve just seen the first episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivalarts.com\/archives\/000634.html\">Firefly<\/a> and found it good.  Even my housemate (&#8220;You&#8217;re making me watch <em>American<\/em> television?&#8221;) was won over.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t hurt at all that one of the cast has the same charming smile as someone with whom I had a couple of close encounters in 1984, hubba hubba.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone read this who can tell me whether the Chinese phrases sprinkled in the dialogue (the hegemonic Alliance is bilingual, English\/Chinese) make sense?  <strong>Later:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivalarts.com\/\">Russell<\/a> says some bits yes, some no, improving over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Netflix I&#8217;ve just seen the first episode of Firefly and found it good. Even my housemate (&#8220;You&#8217;re making me watch American television?&#8221;) was won over. It doesn&#8217;t hurt at all that one of the cast has the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1179\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}