{"id":2433,"date":"2010-03-13T09:08:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T15:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2010-03-13T09:08:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T15:08:34","slug":"high-culture-low-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/high-culture-low-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"High culture, low comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if I had a television, I wouldn&#8217;t be able to watch <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/drboli.wordpress.com\/?s=Al+\u2019n\u2019+Me&#038;submit=Search\">Al &#8216;n&#8217; Me<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. It&#8217;s broadcast only on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metromedia\">Metromedia<\/a>,&#8221; which is not available in most markets at this time. Until that classical-era sitcom receives the wider distribution it deserves, you&#8217;ll have to make do with <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b009v08y\">Acropolis Now<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, featuring such low-lifes as Heraclitus and Aristophanes and their mother the Oracle, and Socrates and Plato. A degree in Classics is not necessary to appreciate the show.<\/p>\n<p>If you prefer modern, interactive entertainment, here&#8217;s the do-it-yourself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adgame-wonderland.de\/type\/bayeux.php\">Bayeux Tapestry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/suburbanbanshee.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/12\/bbc-7-is-really-pretty-odd-when-you-think-about-it\/\">Maureen<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if I had a television, I wouldn&#8217;t be able to watch Al &#8216;n&#8217; Me. It&#8217;s broadcast only on &#8220;Metromedia,&#8221; which is not available in most markets at this time. Until that classical-era sitcom receives the wider distribution it deserves, you&#8217;ll have to make do with Acropolis Now, featuring such low-lifes as Heraclitus and Aristophanes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/high-culture-low-comedy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;High culture, low comedy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[43,665],"class_list":["post-2433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-humor-and-horror","tag-acropolis-now","tag-humor-and-horror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Df","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}