{"id":6427,"date":"2010-06-30T08:13:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T15:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6427"},"modified":"2010-06-30T08:13:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T15:13:44","slug":"there-goes-my-4th-of-july-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/06\/30\/there-goes-my-4th-of-july-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"There goes my 4th of July Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/29\/syfy-youre-a-bad-network-a-very-bad-network\/\">Now what am I supposed to do on Independence Day?<\/a> Why, I might just have to, like, go out and do some actual activities of some kind.<\/p>\n<p><em>SyFy (formerly Sci-Fi) has opted to replace its annual Fourth of July Twilight Zone  Marathon with a Greatest American Hero marathon. First, I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t  realized there were enough GAH episodes for which to justify a  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153marathon, \u00e2\u20ac\u009d (pathetically, there are). And second, WHY?! Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t they want  people to <em>stay<\/em> on the channel for <em>long<\/em>ALF too, make it a full-out Guantanamo Bay-style  retreat.<\/em> periods of  time? They might as well have rolled out<\/p>\n<p><em>I am crushed. For more than a decade I have settled in with family to  watch the bi-annual event: Twilight Zone on New Year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, again on the  Fourth of July. Yes, a marathon of viewing, through the ham-handed and  the sublime, the silly and the profound. Rod Serling, a corny but cool guide through the dimensions,  signposts ahead. War, paranoia, love and fear. Superstition and  weakness, bravery and resolve. This was the time to reflect, holed up in  air conditioning with a thousand familiar archetypes: the key character  who always loses it when a nuclear strike is imminent or he crash lands  on a planet. The misfit. The hero. The shrill wife. The comely naif.  The vexed soldier. The greedy fool. The old man. The insufferable snob  who gets his. The cynical man who gets to go back. The astronaut who  never will.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have watched swatches of these things in comfortable company.\u00c2\u00a0 I have watches swatches of these things in aggravated and insulted company.\u00c2\u00a0 And so it goes.<\/p>\n<p>I hear someone&#8217;s putting on a firework&#8217;s display somewhere.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;ll see that thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now what am I supposed to do on Independence Day? Why, I might just have to, like, go out and do some actual activities of some kind. SyFy (formerly Sci-Fi) has opted to replace its annual Fourth of July Twilight Zone Marathon with a Greatest American Hero marathon. First, I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realized there were enough [&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-6427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6437,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6427\/revisions\/6437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}