{"id":1253,"date":"2012-02-10T07:12:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T13:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2012-02-08T20:57:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T02:57:38","slug":"the-doctor-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/the-doctor-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doctor Is Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/House-Its-not-lupus-Its-never-lupus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1256\" title=\"House-Its-not-lupus-Its-never-lupus\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/House-Its-not-lupus-Its-never-lupus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/House-Its-not-lupus-Its-never-lupus.jpg 360w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/House-Its-not-lupus-Its-never-lupus-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s an old idiom in sports that it is better to let a star player leave one year early than to let him hang on for one year too many. \u00a0On Wednesday, Fox announced that <em>House<\/em> would be wrapping up its run this May after 8 seasons. \u00a0Unfortunately, it may have stuck around for one season too many. \u00a0As I mentioned <a title=\"Midseason Review \u2013 Mondays\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/midseason-review-mondays-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">last month<\/a>, Odette Anabel and Charlyne Yi have injected some fresh blood into this season, but, overall, the show is tired. \u00a0Moving Omar Epps into the Lisa Edelstein role hasn&#8217;t really panned out.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, the show was a strong performer for many years, and introduced us to many memorable characters, including Thirteen, Cutthroat Bitch, and, of course, House himself. \u00a0I will be looking forward to whatever Hugh Laurie decides to do next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old idiom in sports that it is better to let a star player leave one year early than to let him hang on for one year too many. \u00a0On Wednesday, Fox announced that House would be wrapping up its run this May after 8 seasons. \u00a0Unfortunately, it may have stuck around for one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[1638,209,1751,815,816,1750],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-television","tag-charlyne-yi","tag-house","tag-hugh-laurie","tag-lisa-edelstein","tag-odette-anabel","tag-omar-epps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}