{"id":3881,"date":"2013-08-13T08:35:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T14:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2013-08-12T19:12:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T01:12:20","slug":"post-mortem-happy-endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/post-mortem-happy-endings\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Mortem &#8211; Happy Endings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/happy-endings-abc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4375\" alt=\"happy-endings-abc\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/happy-endings-abc.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/happy-endings-abc.jpg 500w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/happy-endings-abc-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Every year there is that one show that you enjoy so much that you can&#8217;t understand why nobody else is watching it and you hope and pray that it doesn&#8217;t get cancelled and then it does.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s version of that show is <em>Happy Endings<\/em>, one of many faux-<em>Friends<\/em> type ensemble shows that debuted in the spring of 2011 and the only one worthy of the comparison.\u00a0 I am not ashamed to say that I probably missed a third of the jokes in this show over the years, and that&#8217;s because they came at you so fast and sometimes with so little fanfare that they were easy to miss while you were still laughing at the previous one.<\/p>\n<p>There was a brief moment of hope where it looked like the show would be saved by another network, but, alas, it was not to be.\u00a0 Meanwhile, <em>Two and a Half Men<\/em> is preparing for its 11th season.\u00a0 Seems reasonable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year there is that one show that you enjoy so much that you can&#8217;t understand why nobody else is watching it and you hope and pray that it doesn&#8217;t get cancelled and then it does.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s version of that show is Happy Endings, one of many faux-Friends type ensemble shows that debuted in [&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":[2400,841,3626],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-friends","tag-happy-endings","tag-two-and-a-half-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881","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=3881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4377,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions\/4377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}