{"id":1964,"date":"2008-07-31T15:22:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T20:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2008-07-31T15:22:03","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T20:22:03","slug":"on-gaps-in-my-cultural-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1964","title":{"rendered":"On Gaps In My Cultural Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never watched <i>A Christmas Story<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I have never read <i>Where the Wild Things Are<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I have never, ever heard of <i>Land of the Giants<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The latter, in particular &mdash; did people <i>really<\/i> watch crap like that in the 1960s?  And think it was <i>good<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>Though should I call it &#8220;crap,&#8221; if I&#8217;ve never seen it?  But based on the Wikipedia article, it sounds, well, <i>crappy<\/i>.  Or at the very least, insultingly stupid.<\/p>\n<p>But isn&#8217;t that par for the course with Irwin Allen television?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never watched A Christmas Story. I have never read Where the Wild Things Are. I have never, ever heard of Land of the Giants. The latter, in particular &mdash; did people really watch crap like that in the 1960s? And think it was good? Though should I call it &#8220;crap,&#8221; if I&#8217;ve never<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1964\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Gaps In My Cultural Knowledge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[4112],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-television","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}