{"id":104,"date":"2008-07-15T23:49:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T23:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2008-07-15T23:49:23","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T23:49:23","slug":"reasons-to-be-cheerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/reasons-to-be-cheerful\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to be cheerful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched the first episode of Joss Whedon&#8217;s web musical, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drhorrible.com\/\">Dr. Horrible&#8217;s Sing-Along Blog<\/a>. It is hilarious, in the vein of silly superhero creations like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Tick\">The Tick<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mystery_Men\">Mystery Men<\/a>, but with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Sondheim\">Sondheim-esque<\/a> compositions! It stars <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Patrick_Harris\">Neil Patrick Harris<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Felicia_Day\">Felicia Day<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nathan_Fillion\">Nathan Fillion<\/a>! It was independently produced by Joss and his relations! It is the future of entertainment financing and distribution!<\/p>\n<p>No joke, I watched it five times already (via iTunes download, because the demand caused the free web site to crash). You will love it. Go see.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not the half of it! I still have <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hellboy_II:_The_Golden_Army\">a new Hellboy movie<\/a> to watch; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Dark_Knight_%28film%29\">the Batman movie<\/a> comes out in a few days; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_X-Files:_I_Want_to_Believe\">the X-Files movie<\/a> premiers July 25; and my birthday follows two days later. And then I&#8217;m going to Hawaii for two weeks. My head asplode. Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched the first episode of Joss Whedon&#8217;s web musical, Dr. Horrible&#8217;s Sing-Along Blog. It is hilarious, in the vein of silly superhero creations like The Tick and Mystery Men, but with Sondheim-esque compositions! It stars Neil Patrick Harris, Felicia Day, and Nathan Fillion! It was independently produced by Joss and his relations! It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-filmtv"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}