{"id":13952,"date":"2012-01-13T13:35:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T18:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2012\/01\/13\/13952.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:03:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:03:41","slug":"the-long-long-road-to-downton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2012\/01\/13\/the-long-long-road-to-downton\/","title":{"rendered":"The long, long road to Downton Abbey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger would just like to ask&#8212;since I expect to be watching the second series of Downton Abbey entirely online, do I have to wait for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/masterpiece\/watch\/index.html\">the official site<\/a> to present it? I mean, I feel quite certain that the remaining six episodes are available in flavorful torrenty goodness and have been since a few minutes after they aired in Britain last autumn. It may not be legal to download those files and watch them, but it&#8217;s certainly feasible.\n<p>On the one hand, of course, I wish to support PBS and their investment (with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/downtonabbey\/\">ITV<\/a>) in Downton Abbey, and I certainly have no interest in quote-unquote stealing from them or making their business plans more difficult than they need to be. On the other, it&#8217;s not clear to me how watching the episodes on the PBS site actually helps PBS in any way. Surely, if anything, it&#8217;s a strain on their resources. I mean, when they do finally post Episode 2, there will be millions of people attempting to stream it all at once; those who have already illegally downloaded and watched the thing will be making room for those who have not. The <i>polite<\/i> thing would be to grab it now, and watch it tonight, right?\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger could live for a month without a new episode of his soap, but couldn&#8217;t make it to lunch without a nice, juicy justification.<\/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":[191,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglophilia","category-flim"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13952","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=13952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19479,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13952\/revisions\/19479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}