{"id":844,"date":"2015-03-29T20:35:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T03:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=844"},"modified":"2015-03-29T20:35:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T03:35:38","slug":"looking-for-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/03\/29\/looking-for-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it was inevitable.\u00a0 <em>HBO <\/em>has officially cancelled <strong><em>Looking<\/em><\/strong>, a show that had so much potential&#8230;on paper.\u00a0 Alas, once it hit the air, it was mired with problems, not the least of which was painfully slow and rudderless pacing.\u00a0 Retooling attempts during the second season had mixed results &#8211; while some of the problems were rectified, one had no idea what to expect week to week.\u00a0 Characters changed overnight, plot lines were begun and dropped, relationships went unexplained.\u00a0 Ultimately, ratings (or lack thereof) sealed its fate.\u00a0 The network said, &#8220;<em>HBO <\/em>will present the final chapter of their journey as a special.&#8221;\u00a0 What form that will take is uncertain, but by the time they get around to it, I suspect very few people will notice&#8230;or care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it was inevitable.\u00a0 HBO has officially cancelled Looking, a show that had so much potential&#8230;on paper.\u00a0 Alas, once it hit the air, it was mired with problems, not the least of which was painfully slow and rudderless pacing.\u00a0 Retooling attempts during the second season had mixed results &#8211; while some of the problems were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}