{"id":43496,"date":"2014-07-12T11:40:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T17:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/12\/constantine-kicks-the-habit.html"},"modified":"2014-07-13T10:43:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T16:43:20","slug":"constantine-kicks-the-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/12\/constantine-kicks-the-habit.html","title":{"rendered":"Constantine kicks the habit"},"content":{"rendered":"
Not a huge surprise, but John Constantine won't be a smoker in his network TV adaptation (nor, presumably, suffer from lung cancer, either, as the comic book character did). Smoking is as off-limits as women's nipples on NBC, especially for a protagonist.<\/p>\n

A shame, but I'm sure he'll find some other obnoxious and self-destructive habit to pursue (and I'm saying that re Constantine, not smokers in general; I'm pretty sure the character does it for reasons other than liking smoking or simple addiction.)\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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No Smoking In CONSTANTINE Show<\/a>
\n One of the most notable character traits about Constantine is going to be absent when he makes his TV debut this October.\n <\/p>\n

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Not a huge surprise, but John Constantine won't be a smoker in his network TV adaptation (nor, presumably, suffer from lung cancer, either, as the comic book character did). Smoking is as off-limits as women's nipples on NBC, especially for a protagonist. A shame, but I'm sure he'll find some other obnoxious and self-destructive habit … Continue reading “Constantine kicks the habit”<\/span><\/a><\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,40,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127499,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/12\/constantine-will-visit-arrow.html","url_meta":{"origin":43496,"position":0},"title":"Constantine will visit "Arrow"","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 12-Aug-15 4:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"I was sorry to see\" Constantine\" canceled. 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