{"id":4842,"date":"2012-12-01T09:47:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T14:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4842"},"modified":"2012-12-01T09:47:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T14:47:50","slug":"merlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4842","title":{"rendered":"Merlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/merlin-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/merlin-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"merlin-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4843\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hulu and Netflix, plus an Internet connection that is faster than it used to be (but still slow by civilized standards), her permitted me to check out older television shows. I&#8217;m now about seven episodes into Merlin.<\/p>\n<p>Merlin is not a high-budget production, and it&#8217;s probably aimed at least partly at children. But the BBC has an amazing ability to do a lot with small budgets. Plus I understand that because Merlin became popular, its budgets and quality rise in future seasons (of which there are five).<\/p>\n<p>These are not the standard King Arthur stories out of Malory. Rather, the stories were written for the series and focus on the doings of teen-age Prince Arthur and the teen-age Merlin, who in this series grow up together at Camelot. It&#8217;s good &#8212; if not dazzling &#8212; television for lovers of fantasy and period pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hulu and Netflix, plus an Internet connection that is faster than it used to be (but still slow by civilized standards), her permitted me to check out older television shows. I&#8217;m now about seven episodes into Merlin. Merlin is not a high-budget production, and it&#8217;s probably aimed at least partly at children. But the BBC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4842\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Merlin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}