{"id":216,"date":"2014-10-03T21:08:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/?p=216"},"modified":"2014-10-03T21:08:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T21:08:09","slug":"a-twist-on-publish-or-perish-classicists-on-last-weeks-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/2014\/10\/03\/a-twist-on-publish-or-perish-classicists-on-last-weeks-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"A twist on &#8220;publish or perish&#8221;: Classicists on last week&#8217;s &#8220;Forever&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the fall television season is upon us, new series are trying to establish their <em>bona fides<\/em>. For ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Forever&#8221;, \u00a0the past is always important: its protagonist Henry, an NYC medical examiner, is reborn every time he dies&#8211;which has been happening for several hundred years, giving him cause to reminisce about the historical development of New York City and WWII, among other topics. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/watch\/690520#i0,p0,d0\" target=\"_blank\">Last week&#8217;s episode<\/a> drew our attention even further back in time, with a murder mystery centered on academic jealousy over the authorship of the scholarly paper &#8220;Last of the Latin Lovers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2014\/10\/Forever-Classics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-217\" alt=\"Forever Classics\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2014\/10\/Forever-Classics-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2014\/10\/Forever-Classics-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2014\/10\/Forever-Classics-624x468.jpg 624w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/files\/2014\/10\/Forever-Classics.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why look back to classical antiquity? Because it is revealed that the man who has been stalking Henry claims to be another immortal&#8211;who is 2000 years old!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the fall television season is upon us, new series are trying to establish their bona fides. For ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Forever&#8221;, \u00a0the past is always important: its protagonist Henry, an NYC medical examiner, is reborn every time he dies&#8211;which has been happening for several hundred years, giving him cause to reminisce about the historical development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}