{"id":25381,"date":"2022-10-06T09:11:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=25381"},"modified":"2022-10-06T09:11:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T14:11:14","slug":"pop-culture-programming-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=25381","title":{"rendered":"Pop culture programming note."},"content":{"rendered":"

I usually don’t do this, but I’m making an exception today. I know that there are some readers of this blog (including one prominent blogger<\/a>) who are “Perry Mason” fans.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow morning’s re-run on MeTV is “The Case of the Prudent Prosecutor<\/a>“, which is my personal favorite from the run.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

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  1. The episode is set at a hunting and fishing club. “Perry Mason” is pretty good about guns in general (for reasons<\/a>) and it is nice to see gun usage (not just hunting, but defensive carry) treated as perfectly normal and reasonable.<\/li>\n
  2. The plot of the episode boils down to: a friend of Hamilton Burger is charged with murder, and Burger asks Perry to defend him. Which is a twist…<\/li>\n
  3. …but it’s a good twist. This is one of the episodes that attempts to humanize Hamilton, and more or less succeeds. There’s a nice scene between Hamilton and Perry, where Hamilton explains why the accused is so important to him. It’s a good character moment: I wish the writers had been a little more consistent about Burger through the rest of the series.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you happen to be in a position to watch this episode, and haven’t, I encourage you to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I usually don’t do this, but I’m making an exception today. I know that there are some readers of this blog (including one prominent blogger) who are “Perry Mason” fans. Tomorrow morning’s re-run on MeTV is “The Case of the Prudent Prosecutor“, which is my personal favorite from the run. Why? The episode is set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25381","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=25381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25382,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25381\/revisions\/25382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}