{"id":1761,"date":"2005-11-27T21:55:33","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T05:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2005-11-30T13:34:24","modified_gmt":"2005-11-30T21:34:24","slug":"flies-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1761","title":{"rendered":"flies on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a fair bet that my readers include at least one Mutant Enemy fanatic.  Got a couple of canon questions for ya.<\/p>\n<p>In <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i>, anyone seen smoking is either evil, under a spell or doomed.  (There&#8217;s one exception: Mrs Epps in &#8220;Some Assembly Required&#8221;, who seems to spend her days watching her dead son&#8217;s football triumphs on tape.)  I didn&#8217;t notice whether the second vampire to acquire a human soul then stopped smoking.<\/p>\n<p>In <i>Firefly<\/i> episode &#8220;The Train Job&#8221;, the sheriff of Paradiso shares a cigarette with a prisoner.  Is anyone else ever seen smoking in that universe?  I can easily picture Jayne with a cigar, but that&#8217;s just stereotyping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a fair bet that my readers include at least one Mutant Enemy fanatic. Got a couple of canon questions for ya. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, anyone seen smoking is either evil, under a spell or doomed. (There&#8217;s one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1761\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}