{"id":20777,"date":"2023-08-26T13:16:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T20:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?page_id=20777"},"modified":"2024-09-21T23:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T06:32:11","slug":"guide-to-john-rogerss-leverage-posts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/hodgepodge\/nonfiction\/guide-to-john-rogerss-leverage-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Guide to John Rogers\u2019s Leverage posts"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>During the run of the original <cite>Leverage<\/cite> TV series, showrunner John Rogers posted an open-comments blog post for each episode, where fans could post comments and questions. And then for most episodes, Rogers answered every single one of those questions in a followup blog post. Sometimes a couple <em>hundred<\/em> questions.<\/p>\r\n<p>It was a great way to engage fans. It gave some great glimpses into the behind-the-scenes world of the show. It gave some interesting insights into Rogers\u2019s views on storytelling. It was a remarkable gift to the community.<\/p>\r\n<p>But for people who are watching or rewatching the episodes now, it can be kind of a hassle to dig up those posts. Google finds most of them, but not all of them; using the Blogger search function finds most of them, but not all of them; looking at Rogers\u2018s \u201cleverage\u201d label\/tag finds many of them, but not in a useful order; and sometimes it\u2019s hard to tell whether a given answers post (a) doesn\u2019t exist, or (b) just isn\u2019t turning up in a search.<\/p>\r\n<p>So I\u2019ve created a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/16o0BCndTdWTLIU_8uIk-9T28CYbSaFNdwYI01GxClKE\/edit#gid=0\">spreadsheet<\/a> that links to all significantly Leverage-related posts from Rogers\u2019s blog.<\/p>\r\n<p>(The spreadsheet doesn\u2019t include posts that aren\u2019t Leverage-related, but sometimes the line between related and not related is a little fuzzy.)<\/p>\r\n<p>Some notes:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>I also included a couple dozen of Rogers\u2019s posts about Leverage from before the show launched.<\/li>\r\n  <li>The first-season posts are much less organized in terms of the distinction betwen question posts and answer posts. Questions and answers for multiple episodes may be jumbled together on one post, sometimes without much to indicate what episode(s) they were referring to. Rogers also posted a few answers directly in the comments.<\/li>\r\n  <li>At this point, most or all of the posts have dozens or hundreds of spam comments at the end of the real comments.<\/li>\r\n  <li>Content warning throughout for Rogers\u2019s frequent references to alcoholism and drunkenness, occasional direct and indirect Warren Ellis references, occasional references to Bill Cosby (because Rogers had previously worked on the TV show <cite>Cosby<\/cite>), occasional jokes in poor taste, etc.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":5482,"menu_order":240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20777","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20777"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20781,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20777\/revisions\/20781"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}