{"id":13240,"date":"2020-01-09T18:03:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T23:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13240"},"modified":"2020-01-09T18:03:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T23:03:55","slug":"thursday-thoughts-including-inspector-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13240","title":{"rendered":"Thursday thoughts, including Inspector Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I need to write something extra-good tonight, <\/strong>because there\u2019s a good chance I\u2019ll be absent tomorrow. Being retired, I can usually figure on my schedule being pretty open, but tomorrow I have two long meetings . (Both, alas, meetings unconnected with the earning of money.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I\u2019m short on subject matter. I drained my brain last\nnight; I\u2019m fresh out of profound thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fended off a Facebook con artist this morning. Got a friend request from a young woman in another state, suspiciously attractive judging by her picture. But we had a mutual friend, and she had the right kind of links posted on her home page, so I gave it a shot. It was but the work of a moment for her to message me and tell me she was looking for a boyfriend. I did give her a fair chance, telling her politely that I was much too old for her. When she told me she didn\u2019t care about that, I severed our association. I may be a fool, as Lord Peter Wimsey once said, \u201cbut I\u2019m not a bloody <\/em>fool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess I can be proud I\u2019m still sharp enough not to fall for such things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m also a little sad that I\u2019m old enough to have lost all\nillusion in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sixth season of Endeavour <\/em><\/a><\/strong>is now streaming on Amazon Prime. Six seasons already? How did that happen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I keep waiting for Shaun Evans to acquire that mark on his temple that his older self has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I liked the original Morse <\/em>series very much, but I\u2019m strongly tempted to like this prequel even better. It\u2019s a good recreation of the era when I came of age (though Morse was a little older than me) and it\u2019s more character-driven, I think. The Morse <\/em>series concentrated mostly on the interplay between Morse and Lewis \u2013 and that was excellent. But Endeavour <\/em>has a larger continuing cast, characters about whom we have come to care. For my part, I particularly like Inspector Bright, who reminds me of a number of older men I\u2019ve known in church work. He came in pretty unsympathetic, but we\u2019ve come to see his finer qualities since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first episode had a character I immediately marked as\nthe Culprit, simply on the basis of established contemporary TV stereotypes. I\nwas delighted to be wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe things will work out all right in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I need to write something extra-good tonight, because there\u2019s a good chance I\u2019ll be absent tomorrow. Being retired, I can usually figure on my schedule being pretty open, but tomorrow I have two long meetings . (Both, alas, meetings unconnected with the earning of money.) But I\u2019m short on subject matter. I drained my brain … Continue reading Thursday thoughts, including Inspector Thursday<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_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":[15,1],"tags":[881,930],"class_list":["post-13240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-uncategorized","tag-endeavour","tag-facebook"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}