{"id":13651,"date":"2018-06-30T02:04:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T08:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=13651"},"modified":"2018-11-11T12:37:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T18:37:02","slug":"post-mortem-pretty-little-liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/post-mortem-pretty-little-liars\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Mortem &#8211; Pretty Little Liars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/pll.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13992\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/pll.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/pll.jpg 220w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/pll-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>Loosely based on the\u00a0novel series of the same name\u00a0written by\u00a0Sara Shepard, <em>Pretty Little Liars<\/em> followed the lives of four (and eventually five) estranged friends who are reunited when they begin receiving messages from a mysterious figure, named &#8220;A&#8221;, who threatens to expose their deepest secrets.\u00a0 The show was one of the first breakout original hits for the ABC Family network when it premiered in 2010. \u00a0On August 29, 2016, Freeform (the rebranded ABC Family) confirmed that the series would be ending after its seventh season in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>As teen soaps go, this was one of the better ones.\u00a0 A time jump in season 6 avoided the going-away-to-college problem and gave the series a spurt of freshness, but, by the time season 7 wrapped up in late June 2017, it was time to go.\u00a0 I&#8217;m certainly looking forward to what comes next for Amber Benson, Lucy Hale, Shay Mitchell, and Troian Bellisario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loosely based on the\u00a0novel series of the same name\u00a0written by\u00a0Sara Shepard, Pretty Little Liars followed the lives of four (and eventually five) estranged friends who are reunited when they begin receiving messages from a mysterious figure, named &#8220;A&#8221;, who threatens to expose their deepest secrets.\u00a0 The show was one of the first breakout original hits [&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":[5299,712,8070,7442,495,8069,8071,8072],"class_list":["post-13651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-abc-family","tag-amber-benson","tag-freeform","tag-lucy-hale","tag-pretty-little-liars","tag-sara-shepard","tag-shay-mitchell","tag-troian-bellisario"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13994,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13651\/revisions\/13994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}