{"id":711,"date":"2008-06-16T07:45:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T11:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=711"},"modified":"2008-06-04T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T13:14:47","slug":"the-addams-family-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":"The Addams Family Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I am just tickled&#8230;um&#8230;blood red.<\/p>\n<p>I was browsing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rimworlds.com\/classic%20science%20fiction%20channel.htm\">Classic Science Fiction Channel<\/a> site and discovered that both seasons of The Addams Family TV series are available for viewing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/the-addams-family\">Hulu<\/a>!  (I&#8217;m not sure why TCSFC links to it, since it&#8217;s palpably not science fiction, but I&#8221;m not complaining.)<\/p>\n<p>The show seems rather crude and slapstick by today&#8217;s standards, but I&#8217;ve always had an enormous soft spot for it.  It enthralled me as a child&#8211;I even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/morticia.jpg\">dressed as Morticia<\/a> for Halloween when I was about eight&#8211;and I think what really struck me about it was the Addams&#8217; relationship with the rest of the world.  Unlike The Munsters (which I never liked), the Addams Family <EM>owned<\/EM> their weirdness.  The Munsters tried to blend in with the normal people and were always disappointed when they were rejected.  As far as the Addams were concerned, they <EM>were<\/EM> the normal ones, and they simply expected the rest of the world to accept them.  I think that&#8217;s a much healthier attitude.<\/p>\n<p>I know what I&#8217;ll be watching in my spare time for the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I am just tickled&#8230;um&#8230;blood red. I was browsing the Classic Science Fiction Channel site and discovered that both seasons of The Addams Family TV series are available for viewing at Hulu! (I&#8217;m not sure why TCSFC links to it, since it&#8217;s palpably not science fiction, but I&#8221;m not complaining.) The show seems rather crude [&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-711","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\/711","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=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}