{"id":2910,"date":"2011-07-25T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T09:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2011-07-24T17:45:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T21:45:01","slug":"klosterman-on-the-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/2910","title":{"rendered":"Klosterman on &#8220;The Wire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Klosterman writes, in an\u00a0<a title=\"Bad Decisions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grantland.com\/story\/_\/id\/6763000\/bad-decisions\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>\u00a0on Grantland that is otherwise dedicated to the greatness of &#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221;:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;This is especially true among people who prefer &#8220;The Wire.&#8221; There&#8217;s never been a more obstinate fan base than that of\u00a0&#8220;The Wire&#8221;; it&#8217;s a secular cult that refuses to accept any argument that doesn&#8217;t classify &#8220;The Wire&#8221;\u00a0as the greatest artistic endeavor in television history. It&#8217;s almost as if these people secretly believe this show\u00a0<em>actually happened<\/em>, and that criticizing the storyline is like mocking an episode of &#8220;Frontline.&#8221;\u00a0This was not a documentary about Baltimore: Wallace is not alive and playing high school football in Texas, Stringer Bell was not reincarnated as a Pennsylvania paper salesman, and you are not qualified to lecture on inner-city education because you own Season 4 on DVD. The citizens on that show were nonexistent composites, and the events you watched did not occur. As a society, we must learn to accept this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chuck Klosterman writes, in an\u00a0article\u00a0on Grantland that is otherwise dedicated to the greatness of &#8220;Breaking Bad&#8221;:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-culture","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-KW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}