{"id":19295,"date":"2013-08-15T06:20:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T11:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=19295"},"modified":"2013-08-15T08:39:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T13:39:06","slug":"sleepy-hollow-tv-series-premieres-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=19295","title":{"rendered":"Sleepy Hollow TV Series Premieres This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intrepid commenter Sisifo sent me a note about this recently, along with the comment, &#8220;Not sure whether to be excited or facepalm.&#8221;  I am similarly torn.<\/p>\n<p>The series premieres next month on Fox.  They&#8217;re touting it as a &#8220;modern-day retelling&#8221; of Washington Irving&#8217;s short story, but their official synopsis is, quote, &#8220;Ichabod Crane wakes up from the throes of death 250 years in the future to find the world on the brink of destruction and learn he is humanity&#8217;s only hope&#8230;forcing him to team up with a contemporary police officer to unravel a mystery that dates back to the founding fathers.&#8221;  I am having a spot of trouble reconciling that plotline with &#8220;Superstitious schoolmaster gets pranked by a guy with a pumpkin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the trailer looks reasonably promising:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"239\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1hFg9qS_u3w?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1hFg9qS_u3w?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The series&#8217; official site is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/sleepy-hollow\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Thanks, Sisifo!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intrepid commenter Sisifo sent me a note about this recently, along with the comment, &#8220;Not sure whether to be excited or facepalm.&#8221; I am similarly torn. The series premieres next month on Fox. They&#8217;re touting it as a &#8220;modern-day retelling&#8221; of Washington Irving&#8217;s short story, but their official synopsis is, quote, &#8220;Ichabod Crane wakes up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19295"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19577,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19295\/revisions\/19577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}