{"id":212,"date":"2003-02-02T15:27:30","date_gmt":"2003-02-02T14:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2003\/02\/24\/"},"modified":"2006-04-21T23:58:56","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T22:58:56","slug":"twenty-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2003\/02\/02\/twenty-four\/","title":{"rendered":"24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the first series of 24. At the time I was totally hooked, but in retrospect I felt a lack of enthusiasm, and it plopped promptly from my mind. I attribute this to being totally daunted by the concept of ever watching it again.<\/p>\n<p>After all, if I were to watch one episode again, I&#8217;d have to watch all 24, and that would be just too big a chunk of my life to lose on a repeat.<\/p>\n<p>So I haven&#8217;t really been awfully excited by the arrival of the new series on these shores. The concept itself is no longer original, and the plot threatens to be a rehash. Yet I watched it last night, and unsurprisingly I didn&#8217;t feel the buzz of excitement which I did at the end of series one, episode one. However, I can be sure that I will be watching next week.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many times Kim will get kidnapped. Oh, and I&#8217;m glad that Kiefer had a shave. After one hour of that fluffy golden West Country-stylee beard, my nerves were starting to wear raw.<\/p>\n<p>And while I am being picky, what the hell is it with all those identikit-blondes? I can&#8217;t tell them apart, though maybe that is intentional on the part of the scriptwriters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the first series of 24. At the time I was totally hooked, but in retrospect I felt a lack of enthusiasm, and it plopped promptly from my mind. I attribute this to being totally daunted by the concept of ever watching it again. After all, if I were to watch one episode again, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}