{"id":133455,"date":"2017-05-11T14:18:12","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T20:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/this-is-syfy.html"},"modified":"2017-05-11T14:18:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T20:18:12","slug":"this-is-syfy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/this-is-syfy.html","title":{"rendered":"This Is Syfy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time, several years ago, when the Sci Fi Channel seemed determine to run from science fiction as a theme as well as by changing its name (reaching its nadir as a host for professional wrestling, which may seem like a clever take on fantasy, but really wasn&#39;t). <\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s definitely changed course since then, and I&#39;m glad to see them officially admitting it, and looking to be the focus point for SF\/F genre stuff, both in media and in fandom communities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/5\/11\/15615942\/syfy-channel-reboot-science-fiction-krypton-happy-purge-expanse'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/yqWRMtrzpkeTyOMMgWvE-ieObpy9SAhLO7lq8dC0KMEPeFJXrHW2plSN_rQNUA4HxYIrsN_E0TtG4w49VuSw-Pl49LTIuJBUPH90JBYF2-DBEqBBXaD4qC9U7z6dzMYoR8926hc4gkRyhcBb1EYa_h07dZlBldZU9V4BNwu448Wv0ePxYUGp3dxIrC2lVHwAU5Aw5d66wQF32bC7Ci03M3U7c_p5qB2ZW7Hp9iZp4h89=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/5\/11\/15615942\/syfy-channel-reboot-science-fiction-krypton-happy-purge-expanse'>The Syfy channel is rebooting with a new focus on science fiction fandom<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nSyfy turns 25 this year, and to commemorate the occasion, the cable channel will unveil a rebranding effort to take advantage of the growing popularity of science fiction and fantasy shows. Along&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/1SLgFYPs9p3'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time, several years ago, when the Sci Fi Channel seemed determine to run from science fiction as a theme as well as by changing its name (reaching its nadir as a host for professional wrestling, which may seem like a clever take on fantasy, but really wasn&#39;t). It&#39;s definitely changed course since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/this-is-syfy.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Is Syfy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}