{"id":122,"date":"2002-12-13T19:55:46","date_gmt":"2002-12-14T00:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=122"},"modified":"2007-08-23T14:15:30","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T18:15:30","slug":"firefly_cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/13\/firefly_cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefly Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprisingly, Fox has cancelled its brilliant show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/firefly\">Firefly<\/a>, after placing it in the 8 PM Friday slot, withholding its pilot, airing the initial episodes out of order, pre-empting it with baseball, and failing to advertise it. Joss Whedon promises <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffistas.org\/showthread.php?thread_id=13&amp;post_id=7717\">not to give up<\/a>, but if the show does come back it won&rsquo;t be until next fall. Mac guy Jason Snell has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teevee.org\/archive\/2002\/12\/13\/index.html\">the best eulogy I&rsquo;ve seen<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Thanks to the cast and everyone at Mutant Enemy. Your work has brought me much laughter and joy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>What to do now? Why enjoy &ldquo;Objects in Space,&rdquo; of course&mdash;it starts in five minutes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Take my love, take my land<br \/>\r\nTake me to where I cannot stand<br \/>\r\nI don&rsquo;t care &rsquo;cause I&rsquo;m still free<br \/>\r\nYou can&rsquo;t take the sky from me<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Take me out to the black<br \/>\r\nTell &rsquo;em I ain&rsquo;t comin&rsquo; back<br \/>\r\nBurn the land and boil the sea<br \/>\r\nYou can&rsquo;t take the sky from me<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>There&rsquo;s no place I could be<br \/>\r\nSince I found Serenity<br \/>\r\nYou can&rsquo;t take the sky from me<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not surprisingly, Fox has cancelled its brilliant show Firefly, after placing it in the 8 PM Friday slot, withholding its pilot, airing the initial episodes out of order, pre-empting it with baseball, and failing to advertise it. Joss Whedon promises not to give up, but if the show does come back it won&rsquo;t be until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}