{"id":200,"date":"2004-09-27T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-27T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/09\/27\/please-watch-joan-of-arcadia\/"},"modified":"2004-09-27T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-27T18:48:00","slug":"please-watch-joan-of-arcadia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/09\/27\/please-watch-joan-of-arcadia\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Watch Joan of Arcadia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/primetime\/joan_of_arcadia\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.inreach.com\/chrisandjanet\/weblog\/joan.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Amber Tamblyn as Joan. Click for official CBS website.\" \/><\/a>We watched the season premiere of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/primetime\/joan_of_arcadia\/\">Joan of Arcadia<\/a> last Friday, and once again, I urge all of my loyal Asparagus Pee readers to make this a must-see. It bothers me a little bit that whenever they are in the police station where her dad works, the whole scene is filmed in NYPD-blue, but other than that, this show is near-perfect.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, where else are you going to hear God advise a teenaged girl, &#8220;Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. That&#8217;s Sartre. Or was it Zappa?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica;font-size: 8pt;\"><b style=\"color: #336699\">UPDATE<\/b> &#038;#151 This is in fact a Frank Zappa quote, and there&#8217;s a pretty concise list of good ones over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaldreamdoor.com\/pages\/quotes\/zappa.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We watched the season premiere of Joan of Arcadia last Friday, and once again, I urge all of my loyal Asparagus Pee readers to make this a must-see. It bothers me a little bit that whenever they are in the police station where her dad works, the whole scene is filmed in NYPD-blue, but other &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/09\/27\/please-watch-joan-of-arcadia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Please Watch Joan of Arcadia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}