{"id":7482,"date":"2014-12-31T01:54:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T01:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/31\/twilight-time-again\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T01:54:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T01:54:21","slug":"twilight-time-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/31\/twilight-time-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Twilight Time Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c72b0512970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rod serling\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c72b0512970b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c72b0512970b-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Rod serling\" \/><\/a>The semi-annual Twilight Zone marathon starts New Year&#39;s Eve morning and runs for two days on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syfy.com\/schedule\/index.php?search_text=Twilight%20Zone\" target=\"_self\">SyFy Channel<\/a>.&#0160; 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<a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/12\/31\/twilight-time-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Twilight Time Again&#8221;<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482","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=7482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}