{"id":73,"date":"2008-04-21T13:55:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T18:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/?p=73"},"modified":"2018-10-31T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T19:26:17","slug":"non-productive-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Non Productive Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to waste as much time as possible, I spent today writing up a little thing in the forums:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/forums\/index.php\/topic,3462.0.html\" target=\"_blank\">One season sci fi wonders<\/a>.  Shows that never were, I suppose.  Canceled after a handful of episodes, they&#8217;re all left out there to fade away into our cult-culture.  Some were great &#8212; like <em>Firefly<\/em> &#8212; and some sucked &#8212; like <em>Logan&#8217;s Run<\/em>.  But they all had promise.  If only in their premise.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Of course, as I put that post together, I was driven to go to Youtube (and elsewhere) and dig up episodes of each show.  Many of them aren&#8217;t yet on disc&#8230; Which is a shame, because there&#8217;s some great drunken TV marathons I could do.  Imagine a <em>Logan&#8217;s Run<\/em> drinking game!  Okay, every time Francis misses from point blank range, chug!<\/p>\n<p>The one season wonder thread was inspired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatsociety.org\/forums\/index.php\/topic,3457.0.html\" target=\"_blank\">great shows that went wrong<\/a> thread, which I used to waste time on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Notice a theme?  A desperate struggle to eat up the hours at my day job and avoid working.  And, yet, I&#8217;m still exhausted.  And strangely guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to waste as much time as possible, I spent today writing up a little thing in the forums: One season sci fi wonders. Shows that never were, I suppose. Canceled after a handful of episodes, they&#8217;re all &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/?p=73\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Non Productive Monday<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,13],"tags":[403,186,104],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cult-culture","category-wage-slave","tag-cult-culture","tag-forums","tag-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}