{"id":815,"date":"2008-05-26T09:50:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T09:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2008-05-26T09:50:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T09:50:02","slug":"celebrating-the-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating &#8216;The Wire&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite me being wall-to-wall busy, Cal and I found time this weekend to finish watching the fifth and final season of &#8216;The Wire&#8217;. Fantastic, urgent, essential television. The flaws in the last season &#8211; it had plenty &#8211; faded as it built to a pleasing and unexpectedly tight conclusion.<br \/>\nIn celebration, then, here are a bunch of links about the greatest TV show of the decade:<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.visitmybaltimore.com\/video\/449\/>Seven minutes of Wire creator David Simon talking about why he loves Baltimore (with cameos from some Wire cast members)<\/a> (no spoilers)<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/dir.salon.com\/story\/ent\/tv\/int\/2002\/06\/29\/simon\/>David Simon on The Wire, talking right at the beginning of season one in 2002<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/may\/24\/the.wire.season.five>The Guardian interviews Snoop Pearson about how she went from prison to acting<\/a> (no real spoilers)<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/dir.salon.com\/story\/ent\/feature\/2004\/10\/01\/the_wire\/index.html>Salon on &#8216;everything you need to know about The WIre&#8217;<\/a> (no spoilers in the excellent overview in page one, then it describes seasons one and two in detail)<br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200801\/bowden-wire>The Atlantic interviews David Simon at the start of season five<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/01\/18\/AR2008011802874.html>Simon writes in the WaPo (which, by the way, gets a hammering in season 5) about his experience of journalism<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/thewire\/finaleletter\/>Simon&#8217;s letter to viewers at the end of the series<\/a> (no spoilers, actually)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite me being wall-to-wall busy, Cal and I found time this weekend to finish watching the fifth and final season of &#8216;The Wire&#8217;. Fantastic, urgent, essential television. The flaws in the last season &#8211; it had plenty &#8211; faded as it built to a pleasing and unexpectedly tight conclusion. In celebration, then, here are a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=815\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Celebrating &#8216;The Wire&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-ive-seen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-d9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}