{"id":834,"date":"2007-02-01T12:56:36","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T12:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=834"},"modified":"2007-02-01T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T12:56:36","slug":"sidney_sheldon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/01\/sidney_sheldon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Sheldon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, man, here&#8217;s another one: the writer Sidney Sheldon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/SHOWBIZ\/01\/30\/sheldon.obit.ap\/\">died<\/a> Tuesday, aged 89. I&#8217;ve never read any of his novels, but <i>I Dream of Jeannie<\/i>, the ridiculous sitcom he created back in the 1965, has always been a favorite of mine. Growing up, it was part of my afternoon block of &#8220;must-see&#8221; syndicated re-runs, which also included (on a rotating basis over the years) <i>Gilligan&#8217;s Island<\/i>, <i>The Brady Bunch<\/i>, <i>Hogan&#8217;s Heroes<\/i>, <i>Bewitched<\/i> (that other sitcom about a hot blonde with magical powers), <i>Get Smart<\/i>, <i>Laugh In<\/i>, and, of course, <i>Star Trek<\/i>. As a little kid, I grooved on the slapstick of whatever trouble Majors Nelson and Healey got themselves into. When I got a little older, my interest in <i>Jeannie<\/i> became a little more, ahem, adult in nature. Let&#8217;s just say that, If nothing else, Sheldon deserves our respect for bringing us the sight of Barbara Eden in diaphanous pants.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, the glories of a misspent youth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, man, here&#8217;s another one: the writer Sidney Sheldon died Tuesday, aged 89. I&#8217;ve never read any of his novels, but I Dream of Jeannie, the ridiculous sitcom he created back in the 1965, has always been a favorite of mine. Growing up, it was part of my afternoon block of &#8220;must-see&#8221; syndicated re-runs, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}