{"id":8286,"date":"2013-01-15T22:16:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T03:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8286"},"modified":"2013-01-15T23:29:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T04:29:19","slug":"pbs-not-just-for-big-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8286","title":{"rendered":"PBS &#8211; not just for Big Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had the chance to see two really excellent series recently. Downton is OK but I really loved Call the Midwife. Pulled tears out of me every episode.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I watched the second of three episodes on American Experience on the <a href=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/video\/2274405136\/\">Abolitionists<\/a>. When I saw the first last week I thought it would be a one hour program. When it ended close to 20 years before the Civil War I knew I was in for more. It was great and tonight&#8217;s follow up was every bit as good. I&#8217;ve drunk in a lot of history from this period but much that was reported fleshed out a lot of new territory and gave wonderful context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had the chance to see two really excellent series recently. Downton is OK but I really loved Call the Midwife. Pulled tears out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,25,62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8286"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8302,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286\/revisions\/8302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}