{"id":17161,"date":"2015-04-28T07:28:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T06:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17161"},"modified":"2015-04-28T07:28:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T06:28:14","slug":"starting-a-new-television-series-madam-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17161","title":{"rendered":"Starting a new television series: &#8220;Madam Secretary&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit of a political junkie and I love political dramas in the movies or on television. <em>&#8220;The West Wing&#8221;<\/em> was my all-time favourite TV series &#8211; I watched all 155 episodes as they were broadcast and every episode again when it was out in a box set.<\/p>\n<p>So I thought that I would give a go to a new political series on television that has been running in the United States for some months but has only just arrived on British shores. It&#8217;s called <em>&#8220;Madam Secretary&#8221;<\/em> and is about a female Secretary of State played by\u00a0T\u00e9a Leoni. I wonder if any of my American readers have been watching it?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W3U4f6lsp4E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit of a political junkie and I love political dramas in the movies or on television. &#8220;The West Wing&#8221; was my all-time favourite TV series &#8211; I watched all 155 episodes as they were broadcast and every episode again when it was out in a box set. So I thought that I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17161","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\/17161","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=17161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17170,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17161\/revisions\/17170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}