{"id":5905,"date":"2016-12-30T15:01:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T15:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/30\/2016-twilight-zone-new-years-marathon\/"},"modified":"2016-12-30T15:01:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T15:01:16","slug":"2016-twilight-zone-new-years-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/30\/2016-twilight-zone-new-years-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Twilight Zone New Year’s Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could there be a better way to end such a surreal year?<\/span><\/p>\n

It starts tomorrow, New Year's Eve,  at 6 AM and runs for three and one half days on the SyFy channel. Here<\/a> is the schedule. Two I won't miss tomorrow morning:<\/span><\/p>\n

9 am: The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine <\/em>\"Rod<\/a><\/span>
9:30am: Escape Clause<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Here is your chance to view some of the episodes you may have missed.  Me, I've seen 'em all, multiple times each.  The best of them are phenomenally good and bristling with philosophical content. Back in aught-nine I offered my analysis<\/a> of "The Lonely" which aired in November, 1959.  <\/span><\/p>\n

The original series ran from 1959 to 1964. In those days it was not uncommon to hear TV condemned as a vast wasteland.  Rod Serling's work was a sterling counterexample.<\/span><\/p>\n

The hard-driving Serling<\/a> lived a short but intense life. Born in 1924, he was dead at age 50 in 1975. His four-pack-a-day cigarette habit destroyed his heart. Imagine smoking 80 Lucky Strikes a day! Assuming 16 hours of smoking time per day, that averages to one cigarette every twelve minutes.  He died on the operating table during an attempted bypass procedure.<\/span><\/p>\n

But who is to say that a long, healthy life is better than a short, intense one fueled by the stimulants one enjoys? That is a question for the individual, not Hillary or Obama Yomama or any latter-day leftard to decide.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a>Like Being the Chief Rabbi in Mecca<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Could there be a better way to end such a surreal year? It starts tomorrow, New Year's Eve,  at 6 AM and runs for three and one half days on the SyFy channel. Here is the schedule. Two I won't miss tomorrow morning: 9 am: The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine 9:30am: Escape Clause Here is your chance … Continue reading “2016 Twilight Zone New Year’s Marathon”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[432,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","category-twilight-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}