{"id":12675,"date":"2010-01-08T10:31:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T15:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2010\/01\/08\/12675.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:54:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:54:01","slug":"c2-this-time-it-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2010\/01\/08\/c2-this-time-it-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"C2: This time it counts!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It occurs to me that some of y'all may have seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/12\/10\/11702.html\">Cranford<\/a>, the miniseries, either when it was on Masterpiece or even grabbing the shiny discs after I mentioned how wonderful it is. I hope so, anyway, because it&#8217;s a lovely, lovely thing.\n<P>Well, and it was so successful back on Albion&#8217;s Pleasant Shores that they made another one, a sequel that I believe is called <i>Cranford and Son<\/i>, for showing at Yuletide just last week. And people seemed to like it there. The <i>Guardian<\/i> said that even if you think that the sight of one more bonnet will make you puke out your Christmas pud, you don&#8217;t want to miss <I>A Very Cranford Christmas<\/i>&#8221;. The <I>Times<\/I> reviewer said that <I>The End of Cranford<\/i> was one of the few charming adaptations to actually be charming, and the <I>Sun<\/i> said that <i>Cranford and Zombies<\/i> was an outrage that the clever-clever elites were trying to put over on the real, hard-working salt of the earth, and Lisa Dillon caught in love nest: <strong>DILLY-DALLYING!<\/strong>\n<p>Back in real life, those who watch television only over the internet can catch up by watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/masterpiece\/cranford\/watch.html\">Cranford<\/a> itself over the next couple of days, and then watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/masterpiece\/cranford2\/watch.html\">Return to Cranford<\/a> (no, really, that&#8217;s what they called it, although I can&#8217;t imagine who would be returning, unless&#8230; ) anytime in the next month or so.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger returns to that humble little village where a single candle is sufficient, the social rules are to be followed with exactitude, and the dead rise from their graves and feast on the flesh of the living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puff-piece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18969,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12675\/revisions\/18969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}