{"id":21928,"date":"2016-01-13T12:19:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T17:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=21928"},"modified":"2016-01-13T12:19:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T17:19:41","slug":"essay-in-l-a-review-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=21928","title":{"rendered":"Essay in L.A. Review of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Ian Williams <a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/essay\/hell-try-to-keep-his-sanity-with-the-help-of-his-robot-friends-on-mystery-science-theater-3000\/\" target=\"_blank\">has an essay<\/a> in the L.A. Review of Books, of all places, about the show, and how it &#8220;saved my life, at least twice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cast has said that they&#8217;ve received hundreds, maybe thousands of letters along the same line: &#8220;I was in the hospital desperately ill\/a loved one was desperately ill\/a loved one died\/a crisis overtook my life\/etc. etc. and MST3K saved me and helped me feel normal again.&#8221; It&#8217;s a great legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Ian Williams has an essay in the L.A. Review of Books, of all places, about the show, and how it &#8220;saved my life, at least twice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cast has said that they&#8217;ve received hundreds, maybe thousands of letters along the same line: &#8220;I was in the hospital desperately ill\/a loved one was desperately [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-mentions","category-msties","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21930,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21928\/revisions\/21930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}