{"id":3885,"date":"2013-06-28T09:29:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T15:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2013-06-27T19:46:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T01:46:19","slug":"post-mortem-golden-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/post-mortem-golden-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Mortem &#8211; Golden Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/golden-boy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4184\" alt=\"golden-boy\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/golden-boy.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/golden-boy.jpg 360w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/golden-boy-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>Back in 2004, Greg Berlanti created a little show called <em>Jack &amp; Bobby<\/em>, about a boy who would become president 45 years in the future. \u00a0That show only lasted one lackluster year, but obviously the idea of the framing sequence of someone of importance in the future around a current day story of their upbringing stayed with Berlanti, who revisited it for <em>Golden Boy<\/em>, the tale of a young detective who one day will become the police commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>The show wasn&#8217;t particularly good, but it wasn&#8217;t bad either. \u00a0It just was, which fit in particularly well on CBS. \u00a0Not well enough, though, as the show was given its 13 episodes and then was dumped. \u00a0One hopes that, one of these days, Chi McBride will find himself on a successful show worthy of his talents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2004, Greg Berlanti created a little show called Jack &amp; Bobby, about a boy who would become president 45 years in the future. \u00a0That show only lasted one lackluster year, but obviously the idea of the framing sequence of someone of importance in the future around a current day story of their upbringing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[504,3538,3537,3535,3536],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-cbs","tag-chi-mcbride","tag-golden-boy","tag-greg-berlanti","tag-jack-bobby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","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=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4185,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/4185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}