{"id":1271,"date":"2009-01-06T09:10:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T08:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2009-01-06T09:10:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T08:10:45","slug":"return-to-the-west-wing-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"Return to &#8220;The West Wing&#8221; (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westwingepguide.com\/\">&#8220;The West Wing&#8221;<\/a> was my all-time favourite television series and I guess that I was not alone in finding it both immensely entertaining and informative. After all, it won two Golden Globe Awards and 26 Emmy Awards, a tie with &#8220;Hill Street Blues&#8221; for the most Emmy Awards ever won by a television drama series.<br \/>\nNow I watched all 154 episodes of the seven series as they were first broadcast on British television. Later I rewatched series one through to five on DVD. For Christmas, our son and daughter-in-law gave us DVDs of series six and seven and we&#8217;ve just started enjoying them.<br \/>\nSeries six opens with the president having to decide how to respond to a Hamas terrorist incident in the Gaza Strip. He is advised to hit a wide variety of targets hard with military attacks but chooses instead to hit limited targets and contrive a set of Middle East peace negotiations.<br \/>\nTrouble in Gaza? Sound familiar? A proportionate military response while seeking negotiations? Sound fanciful? Of course, it&#8217;s only television &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The West Wing&#8221; was my all-time favourite television series and I guess that I was not alone in finding it both immensely entertaining and informative. After all, it won two Golden Globe Awards and 26 Emmy Awards, a tie with &#8220;Hill Street Blues&#8221; for the most Emmy Awards ever won by a television drama series. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}