{"id":13107,"date":"2010-06-17T22:43:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T05:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/06\/17\/13107.html"},"modified":"2010-06-17T22:43:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T05:43:20","slug":"cute-ncis-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/06\/17\/cute-ncis-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Cute NCIS exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I'd been told that <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NCIS_(TV_series)\">NCIS<\/a><\/cite> was mildly entertaining, and every so often I figure I ought to take a look at an episode of some wildly popular TV series or other just to keep my finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist; so in a desperate attempt to avoid all the stuff I should've been doing this evening, I watched the episode that happened to be on: &ldquo;Deception.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The show is approximately as goofy as I'd been told, and I won't keep watching, but it had two or three fun moments. My favorite throwaway cute bit was this exchange between gothy forensic specialist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abby_Sciuto\">Abby Sciuto<\/a> and gruff-with-a-heart-of-gold boss-man <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leroy_Jethro_Gibbs\">Leroy Gibbs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"dialogue\">\n<p><strong>Abby Sciuto<\/strong>: Thank you, Sir.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leroy Gibbs<\/strong>: Don't call me &ldquo;sir.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abby Sciuto<\/strong> [not missing a beat]: Thank you, Ma'am.<\/p>\n<p>[Sciuto leaves; camera lingers on Gibbs, who smiles, amused.]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been told that NCIS was mildly entertaining, and every so often I figure I ought to take a look&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,18,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender","category-humor","category-television"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=13107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}