{"id":127501,"date":"2015-08-12T18:44:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T00:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/12\/fabulous-flummery.html"},"modified":"2015-08-25T17:41:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T23:41:18","slug":"fabulous-flummery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/12\/fabulous-flummery.html","title":{"rendered":"Fabulous Flummery"},"content":{"rendered":"

+<\/span>Kay Hill<\/a><\/span> has been at Band Practice evenings this week, so +<\/span>Margie Kleerup<\/a><\/span> and I have been re-discovering just how splendid — extremely satisfactory — the A&E Nero Wolfe<\/i> adaptations were. Delightful acting, charming production values, and very good adaptations of the original novels \/ short stories.<\/p>\n

Highly recommended.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

+Kay Hill has been at Band Practice evenings this week, so +Margie Kleerup and I have been re-discovering just how splendid — extremely satisfactory — the A&E Nero Wolfe adaptations were. Delightful acting, charming production values, and very good adaptations of the original novels \/ short stories. Highly recommended. \u00a0 View on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127502,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,36,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-books","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5140SRV7GBL5B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50225,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/30\/keyboard-adaptations.html","url_meta":{"origin":127501,"position":0},"title":"Keyboard Adaptations","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 30-Apr-15 8:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes. 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