{"id":12384,"date":"2008-05-16T10:41:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T17:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/05\/16\/im-robin-hood.html"},"modified":"2008-05-16T10:41:06","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T17:41:06","slug":"im_robin_hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/16\/im_robin_hood.html","title":{"rendered":"“I’m Robin Hood”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Been watching a few episodes of the new (well, in its second season, but new to me) Robin Hood<\/a> <\/em>series on BBC America.<\/p>\n

Think Hercules\/Xena<\/em>, only with fewer gods and more castles. In other words — action\/adventure with more attention to humor than historical accuracy or even very much drama. Nice enough video popcorn to munch from, but nothing to go seriously out of my way to watch every week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Been watching a few episodes of the new (well, in its second season, but new to me) Robin Hood series on BBC America. Think Hercules\/Xena, only with fewer gods and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4621,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/28\/faded_photograp-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":12384,"position":0},"title":"Faded photographs …","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 28-Jul-03 7:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"Ghost of a Flea brings up memories not only of Battlestar Galactica, but two staples of my childhood, Rocket Robin Hood and, in the comments, The Mighty Hercules. 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