{"id":1296,"date":"2009-01-24T22:52:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T21:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2009-01-24T22:52:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T21:52:59","slug":"return-to-the-west-wing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"Return to &#8220;The West Wing&#8221; (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of the month, I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/2009\/01\/return_to_the_west_wing.html\"a >posting<\/a> about how Vee and I had received DVD sets of series six and seven of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westwingepguide.com\/\">&#8220;The West Wing&#8221;<\/a> for Christmas.<br \/>\nWe watched the 22 episodes of series six in just 12 days, concluding with the Latino Matt Santos winning the Democratic candidacy after a contested convention. We then decided to take a break from American politics in television while the real thing &#8211; the inauguration of Barack Obama &#8211; engaged our attention.<br \/>\nThis evening, we returned to &#8220;The West Wing&#8221; and watched the first four episodes of series seven. This is television that is both brilliantly entertaining and highly informative. No British television series has ever treated politics so intelligently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of the month, I did posting about how Vee and I had received DVD sets of series six and seven of &#8220;The West Wing&#8221; for Christmas. We watched the 22 episodes of series six in just 12 days, concluding with the Latino Matt Santos winning the Democratic candidacy after a contested convention. [&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-1296","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\/1296","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=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}