{"id":11509,"date":"2011-07-31T15:01:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-31T22:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=11509"},"modified":"2011-07-31T15:28:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T22:28:54","slug":"the-politics-of-gilligans-island-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=11509","title":{"rendered":"The politics of&#8230;Gilligan&#8217;s Island?  No, really!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/what-gilligans-island-creator-sherwood-schwartz-was-saying-about-democracy\/2011\/07\/14\/gIQAVVrXGI_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">What \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGilligan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Island\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 creator Sherwood Schwartz was saying about democracy<\/a><\/h2>\n<pre>\"Sherwood Schwartz, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/sherwood-schwartz-creator-of-gilligans-island-and-brady-bunch-dies-at-94\/2011\/07\/12\/gIQAHq7NBI_story.html\"> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/sherwood-schwartz-creator-of-gilligans-island-and-brady-bunch-dies-at-94\/2011\/07\/12\/gIQAHq7NBI_story.html\">who died Tuesday at the age of 94<\/a> (July 12th) , will\r\nnot be remembered as one of television\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s innovative geniuses. But  he did\r\ncreate two of the most popular shows in TV history, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0000WN1WW?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=washpost-opinions-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B0000WN1WW\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gilligan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Island\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0006Z2L4W?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=washpost-opinions-20&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=B0006Z2L4W\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Brady Bunch.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> And he did something rare: He made people laugh,\r\neven in reruns.\r\n\r\nBut what did the sitcom king have in common with the French thinker\r\nAlexis de Tocqueville? \r\n\r\nAnswer: They both were interested in  democracy in America.\"<\/pre>\n<p>Really! And we all watched just to laugh, not get an education in political theory.  Read it!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>~Curtis in \/\\\/\\onTana! {!-{&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGilligan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Island\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 creator Sherwood Schwartz was saying about democracy &#8220;Sherwood Schwartz, who died Tuesday at the age of 94 (July 12th) , will not be remembered as one of television\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s innovative geniuses. But he did create two of the most popular shows in TV history, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Gilligan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Island\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Brady Bunch.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And he did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11509"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11530,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11509\/revisions\/11530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}