{"id":780,"date":"2007-08-09T19:35:36-04:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T23:35:36+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/08\/09\/slings-and-arrows\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T21:54:33-04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T01:54:33+00:00","slug":"slings-and-arrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2007\/08\/09\/slings-and-arrows\/","title":{"rendered":"Slings and&nbsp;Arrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/d\/db\/SlingsAndArrowsSeason1DVDCover.jpg\/160px-SlingsAndArrowsSeason1DVDCover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0387779\/\"><cite class=\"title\">Slings and Arrows<\/cite><\/a> was a 2003 miniseries about the goings-on&#8212;the <q>slings and arrows of outrageous fortune<\/q>, as it were&#8212;at a Shakespearean theatre festival which was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Ontario&#8217;s long-running <a href=\"http:\/\/stratfordfestival.ca\/\">Stratford Festival<\/a>.  In a rare occurrence for a Canadian television series, particularly one with such a &#8220;highbrow&#8221; premise, it turned out to be popular, so much so that it was revived for two more six-episode runs.<\/p><p style=\"clear:right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/2\/2f\/SlingsAndArrowsSeason3DVDCover.jpg\/160px-SlingsAndArrowsSeason3DVDCover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Why do I mention it?  Well, because it was cleverly written (by Mark McKinney, Susan Coyne and Bob Martin) as a darkly-comedic drama, well-acted by Paul Gross, Martha Burns and Stephen Ouimette, as well as a host of other talented Canadians including Rachel McAdams, Don McKellar, Colm Feore, Sarah Polley and William Hutt&#8230; and because the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slings_and_Arrows#DVD_Releases\">third-season DVD<\/a> arrived in my mailbox today.  Joy!<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slings and Arrows was a 2003 miniseries about the goings-on&#8212;the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, as it were&#8212;at a Shakespearean theatre festival which was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Ontario&#8217;s long-running Stratford Festival. In a rare occurrence for a Canadian television series, particularly one with such a &#8220;highbrow&#8221; premise, it turned out to&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}