{"id":177753,"date":"2019-06-20T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/06\/20\/today-in-self-ownership\/"},"modified":"2019-06-20T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T00:36:00","slug":"today-in-self-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/06\/20\/today-in-self-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Self-Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelicals have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/jun\/20\/petition-netflix-cancel-amazon-prime-good-omens-christian-neil-gaiman-terry-pratchett\">have organized a letter writing campaign to convince Netflix to cancel the show <i>Good Omens<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I do not expect this to be successful, particularly since the show is produced by Amazon, not Netflix:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">More than 20,000 Christians have signed a petition calling for the cancellation of Good Omens, the television series adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/terrypratchett\">Terry Pratchett<\/a> and Neil Gaiman\u2019s 1990 fantasy novel \u2013 unfortunately addressing their petition to Netflix when the series is made by Amazon Prime. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But Christians marshalled by the Return to Order campaign, an offshoot of the US Foundation for a Christian Civilisation, disagree. More than 20,000 supporters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.returntoorder.org\/petition\/tell-netflix-to-cancel-blasphemous-good-omens\/\">have signed a petition<\/a> in which they say that Good Omens is \u201canother step to make satanism appear normal, light and acceptable\u201d, and \u201cmocks God\u2019s wisdom\u201d. God, they complain, is \u201cvoiced by a woman\u201d \u2013 Frances McDormand \u2013 the antichrist is a \u201cnormal kid\u201d and, most importantly, \u201cthis type of video makes light of Truth, Error, Good and Evil, and destroys the barriers of horror that society still has for the devil\u201d. They are calling on Netflix to cancel the show. <\/p>\n<p>Gaiman responded to the petition on Twitter, writing: \u201cI love that they are going to write to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/netflix\">Netflix<\/a> to try and get #GoodOmens cancelled. Says it all really. This is so beautiful &#8230; Promise me you won\u2019t tell them?\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This may be the best way to honor the memory of Terry Pratchett ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelicals have have organized a letter writing campaign to convince Netflix to cancel the show Good Omens. I do not expect this to be successful, particularly since the show is produced by Amazon, not Netflix: More than 20,000 Christians have signed a petition calling for the cancellation of Good Omens, the television series adapted from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[588,555,380,486,406,614,403],"class_list":["post-177753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-literature","tag-religion","tag-schadenfreude","tag-stupid","tag-television","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}