{"id":3763,"date":"2013-02-08T18:41:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T00:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2013-02-08T18:41:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T00:41:03","slug":"the-next-battlestar-galactica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3763","title":{"rendered":"The Next Battlestar Galactica?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMC, the cable network that gave us <em>Breaking Bad<\/em> and <em>The Walking Dead<\/em>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2013\/02\/the-sparrow-tv-show-mary-doria-russell\">optioned Mary Doria Russell&#8217;s wonderful novel <em>The Sparrow<\/em><\/a> for a possible series. Longtime readers of this blog have probably seen previous entries in which I raved about this book. It&#8217;s a beautifully written story about first contact, faith, and the terrible consequences of good intentions. <em>The Sparrow<\/em> covers some bleak material which AMC is well-suited to bring to screen. People already associate the network with intelligent fare that isn&#8217;t afraid to go to some dark places and <em>The Sparrow<\/em> could nicely round out AMC&#8217;s genre offerings.<\/p>\n<p>Like any option deal, it could amount to nothing. But it&#8217;s encouraging to see that television producers are still open to developing intelligent science fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMC, the cable network that gave us Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead, has optioned Mary Doria Russell&#8217;s wonderful novel The Sparrow for a possible series. Longtime readers of this blog have probably seen previous entries in which I raved about this book. It&#8217;s a beautifully written story about first contact, faith, and the terrible <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3763' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","category-11-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-YH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3764,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions\/3764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}