{"id":3783,"date":"2015-05-18T11:06:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T16:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3783"},"modified":"2015-05-19T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:11:00","slug":"mad-men-finale-the-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3783","title":{"rendered":"Mad Men Finale &#8212; The Real Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>And now the time has come&#8230;. <\/em><em>It&#8217;s time for shout-outs and good-byes. A time for nostalgia and moving forward.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3786\" style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/imgres-11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3786\" title=\"imgres-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/imgres-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon Hamm would&#39;ve killed in this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back in the 1960&#8217;s and 70&#8217;s there were several television series premised around a lone man on the run from something or someone. He&#8217;d travel from town to town \u2013 usual in the heartland \u2013 and wind up in all sorts of different situations \u2013 <em>The Fugitive<\/em> was the prototype, but it was followed by <em>Run for Your Life<\/em>, <em>Then Came Bronson<\/em>, <em>Kung Fu<\/em>, <em>The Immortal. <\/em>Has this become Don&#8217;s fate? To wander the earth like Caine, getting involved in other people&#8217;s business? Don is still on the road, now driving a fast car \u2013 but it&#8217;s only a test drive, for some young ones who have designed the car. What will happen next? Is this the finale or the spin-off pilot?  <a href=\"http:\/\/happynicetimepeople.com\/mad-men-the-real-thing\/\">(To read the rest of this snarky, yet insightful recap please visit HNTP the blog that like Roger Sterling considers TV the bestest friend anyone could have.)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now the time has come&#8230;. It&#8217;s time for shout-outs and good-byes. A time for nostalgia and moving forward. Back in the 1960&#8217;s and 70&#8217;s there were several television series premised around a lone man on the run from something or someone. He&#8217;d travel from town to town \u2013 usual in the heartland \u2013 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3783\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mad Men Finale &#8212; The Real Thing<\/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":[1165,1163,1164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783"}],"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=3783"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3804,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3783\/revisions\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}