{"id":185621,"date":"2014-09-27T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/27\/corrupting-my-kids\/"},"modified":"2014-09-27T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T00:37:00","slug":"corrupting-my-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/27\/corrupting-my-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Corrupting My Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 195px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/CHRLl06.gif\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/CHRLl06.gif\" width=\"190\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Be seeing you!<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Some years ago, I received a complete DVD set of what is arguably the best show ever put on Television, <i>The Prisoner<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>It is certainly the most innovative drama yet to grace the small screen.&nbsp; (I&#8217;m not sure whether the works of Ernie Kovacs are more innovative, hence the &#8220;drama&#8221; modifier)<\/p>\n<p>I have decided that it&#8217;s time for me to introduce my children to the work.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve already seen the first episode, and in re-watching it, it appears to be even more timely than when I saw it first in the late 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow the concerns about privacy and surveillance seem particularly apropos now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be seeing you! Some years ago, I received a complete DVD set of what is arguably the best show ever put on Television, The Prisoner. It is certainly the most innovative drama yet to grace the small screen.&nbsp; (I&#8217;m not sure whether the works of Ernie Kovacs are more innovative, hence the &#8220;drama&#8221; modifier) I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1167,1062,976,1077],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-espionage","category-family","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185621"}],"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=185621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}