{"id":3579,"date":"2015-03-24T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T01:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2015-03-24T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T01:43:08","slug":"better-call-saul-s1-e8-rico-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3579","title":{"rendered":"Better Call Saul, S1 E8 &#8212; Rico Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/saul-promo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3580 alignleft\" title=\"saul-promo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/saul-promo-300x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/saul-promo-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/saul-promo.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Seriously, am I the only one concerned about the Catholicism of<em> Saul <\/em>and the revisionist politics of<em> The Americans<\/em>? If we&#8217;re going to take television seriously even if only as a popular form of entertainment, don&#8217;t we have to fixate occasionally on the message and not the medium? But what do I know? I only write snarky recaps over at <a href=\"http:\/\/happynicetimepeople.com\/better-call-saul-paper-chase\/\">Happy Nice Time People. You can see my latest there. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(And then if you want to thank me, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Marion-Stein\/e\/B00404HWN0\">here <\/a>and buy a book!) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, am I the only one concerned about the Catholicism of Saul and the revisionist politics of The Americans? If we&#8217;re going to take television seriously even if only as a popular form of entertainment, don&#8217;t we have to fixate occasionally on the message and not the medium? But what do I know? I only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3579\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Better Call Saul, S1 E8 &#8212; Rico Recap<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[496],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3584,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions\/3584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}