{"id":136502,"date":"2018-05-20T22:53:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T04:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136502"},"modified":"2018-05-27T00:05:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T06:05:07","slug":"loving-leverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/20\/loving-leverage.html","title":{"rendered":"Loving &#8220;Leverage&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My household has long loved the caper TV series <i>Leverage<\/i> (2008-2012), and have been slowly working through our DVD sets of the series &#8230;\u00a0but, with my brother visiting this weekend, and my mom perforce being over at the house more, it&#8217;s also a fine and mutually enjoyable series just to throw on the TV, starting with the premiere episode, and share in the evening as something everyone can enjoy.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6557892826666393697\/6557892826716847346\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-4TId85vMIbw\/WwJQx9uKPPI\/AAAAAAAE_L4\/hoONmDQVDnkZiCjNSImDligNdRPkD8_mACJoC\/leverage.png?imgmax=660\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/fHy97Bzzg3s\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My household has long loved the caper TV series Leverage (2008-2012), and have been slowly working through our DVD sets of the series &#8230;\u00a0but, with my brother visiting this weekend, and my mom perforce being over at the house more, it&#8217;s also a fine and mutually enjoyable series just to throw on the TV, starting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/20\/loving-leverage.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Loving &#8220;Leverage&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136503,"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":"","_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":[106,40],"tags":[1626,1625],"class_list":["post-136502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv","tag-caper","tag-leverage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/leverage.pngimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17854,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/13\/tv-review-hustle-series-1.html","url_meta":{"origin":136502,"position":0},"title":"TV Review: &#8220;Hustle&#8221; (Series 1)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Jul-10 10:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So as I was poking around about one of my favorite TV series, \"Leverage,\" I started reading about a series called \"Hustle.\" And so I tried out the DVD set for the first season. \"Hustle\" is a BBC series, premiering in 2004, about a \"family\" of cons and grifters, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;TV&quot;","block_context":{"text":"TV","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-tv"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30333,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/24\/tv-season-wrap-ups.html","url_meta":{"origin":136502,"position":1},"title":"TV season wrap-ups","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Sep-12 11:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We've been playing catch-up on DVR TV stuff for far too long (too many non-TV activities, vacations and business trips and the like, etc. and so forth), but we actually wrapped up a few series seasons this week:- The Mentalist : This series season wrapped up some time back, but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17615,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/tweets-from-2010-06-14.html","url_meta":{"origin":136502,"position":2},"title":"Tweets from 2010-06-14","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Jun-10 11:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"At DIA in security line. 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