{"id":12251,"date":"2014-05-28T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=12251"},"modified":"2018-09-19T07:32:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T12:32:38","slug":"travel-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=12251","title":{"rendered":"Travel day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Light blogging ahead. And just when it seems things are picking up, too.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is, I&#8217;m going to get my yearly Smith and Wesson fix. I&#8217;ll report in as time permits.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/long-running-private-eye-series-mannix-was-brutal--204978\">the most recent &#8220;100 Episodes&#8221; column on the A\/V Club site is devoted to &#8220;Mannix&#8221;<\/a>, a series that is just at the fringes of my memory, and that I&#8217;d love to see again. (I&#8217;ve been watching for the DVDs to show up used, but haven&#8217;t had any luck yet.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/long-running-private-eye-series-mannix-was-brutal--204978\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mannix<\/em> was too smooth, too \u201970s to qualify as neo-noir, but more than anything else on television it did echo the flavor of its era\u2019s most unsentimental crime novelists, authors like Ross Macdonald, John D. MacDonald, Richard Stark.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Beyond the shout out to three of my favorite crime novelists, this is a swell survey of what made &#8220;Mannix&#8221; interesting; I commend it to your attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light blogging ahead. And just when it seems things are picking up, too. The good news is, I&#8217;m going to get my yearly Smith and Wesson fix. I&#8217;ll report in as time permits. In the meantime, the most recent &#8220;100 Episodes&#8221; column on the A\/V Club site is devoted to &#8220;Mannix&#8221;, a series that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,20,14,3,195,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-admin","category-clippings","category-guns","category-mannix","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12252,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12251\/revisions\/12252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}