{"id":12063,"date":"2017-03-10T19:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T01:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=12063"},"modified":"2017-03-10T18:46:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T00:46:05","slug":"20-years-of-slaying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/20-years-of-slaying\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years Of Slaying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/30-day-picture-challenge-day-03-%e2%80%93-a-picture-of-the-cast-from-your-favorite-show\/buffy_season5_cast\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-522\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-522\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/buffy_season5_cast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/buffy_season5_cast.jpg 640w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/buffy_season5_cast-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>20 years ago tonight, <em>Welcome To The Hellmouth<\/em> and <em>The Harvest<\/em> aired on the WB, bringing\u00a0<em>Buffy The Vampire Slayer<\/em> to small screen. \u00a0Based on the original script for the 1992 film of the same name, the series, helmed by writer Joss Whedon, reached new heights for the fledgling network and became a pop culture phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>20 years later, the show&#8217;s imprint still looms over the pop culture landscape. \u00a0Whedon has become one of the most successful film directors, directing the first two <em>Avengers<\/em> movies which earned a combined $3 billion. \u00a0In their book TV (The Book), critics Alan Sepinwall and\u00a0Matt Zoller Seitz ranked the show as the 26th best of all time. \u00a0The series has continued on in comic book form, and manages to convert new fans today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 years ago tonight, Welcome To The Hellmouth and The Harvest aired on the WB, bringing\u00a0Buffy The Vampire Slayer to small screen. \u00a0Based on the original script for the 1992 film of the same name, the series, helmed by writer Joss Whedon, reached new heights for the fledgling network and became a pop culture phenomenon. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[2991,106,2256,7335,2311,860,7334],"class_list":["post-12063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-alan-sepinwall","tag-buffy","tag-joss-whedon","tag-matt-zoller-seitz","tag-the-avengers","tag-the-wb","tag-tv-the-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12063"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12069,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063\/revisions\/12069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}