{"id":619,"date":"2007-04-13T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2007\/04\/13\/clearly-its-a-western\/"},"modified":"2007-04-13T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T18:20:00","slug":"clearly-its-a-western","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2007\/04\/13\/clearly-its-a-western\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearly, it&#8217;s a Western"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just figured out why I&#8217;m the only fan on the East Coast who doesn&#8217;t watch <i>Galactica<\/i>. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/culture\/culturereviews\/news\/2007\/04\/scifighetto_0412\" target=\"_new\">Wired magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even Battlestar Galactica, the flagship show of (hello!) the Sci Fi Channel, keeps a distance [from being identified as SF]. &#8220;It&#8217;s fleshed-out reality,&#8221; explains executive producer Ronald D. Moore in the sci-fi mag SFX. &#8220;It&#8217;s not in the science-fiction genre.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ahh, I get it. I was expecting <i>Galactica<\/i> to <i>be<\/i> science-fiction. Silly me.<\/p>\n<p>And now, a multiple-choice question: You are behind another vehicle in a 55-mile-per-hour zone. For the last 5 minutes, the driver has moved no faster than 30 MPH. You&#8217;re running a little late, and you&#8217;d like to drive the speed limit. Do you:<\/p>\n<p>A) Flash your headlights at the driver ahead;<\/p>\n<p>B) Tailgate the other vehicle closely, hoping the driver will get the hint;<\/p>\n<p>C) Attempt to pass the other vehicle, which will result in their sudden discovery of their gas pedal and acceleration to 70 or 80 MPH rather than allowing you to pass.<\/p>\n<p>The answer in Hampton Roads is, of course, C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just figured out why I&#8217;m the only fan on the East Coast who doesn&#8217;t watch Galactica. According to Wired magazine: Even Battlestar Galactica, the flagship show of (hello!) the Sci Fi Channel, keeps a distance [from being identified as SF]. &#8220;It&#8217;s fleshed-out reality,&#8221; explains executive producer Ronald D. Moore in the sci-fi mag SFX. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-9Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}