{"id":22611,"date":"2016-05-20T16:02:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T20:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=22611"},"modified":"2016-05-20T16:02:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T20:02:34","slug":"elliott-kalan-named-head-writer-for-the-new-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/?p=22611","title":{"rendered":"Elliott Kalan Named Head Writer for the New Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Elliott_Rooney_400x400.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Elliott_Rooney_400x400-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Elliott_Rooney_400x400\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Elliott_Rooney_400x400-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Elliott_Rooney_400x400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Elliott_Rooney_400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Elliott_Rooney_400x400-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> He&#8217;s been in the job a couple of months already, but today Joel announced that former &#8216;Daily Show&#8217; head writer Elliott Kalan is the head writer for Joel&#8217;s MST3K revival. &#8220;I\u2019m the luckiest man in recorded history,&#8221; he said in his statement to the backers.<\/p>\n<p>And before the political back and forth begins, Joel took time in his announcement to explicitly state that his presence &#8220;doesn&#8217;t mean that we&#8217;re planning to make MST3K more political.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>So please be kind and observe the NO POLITICS rule in the comments. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/> He&#8217;s been in the job a couple of months already, but today Joel announced that former &#8216;Daily Show&#8217; head writer Elliott Kalan is the head writer for Joel&#8217;s MST3K revival. &#8220;I\u2019m the luckiest man in recorded history,&#8221; he said in his statement to the backers.<\/p>\n<p>And before the political back and forth [&#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":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-relaunch","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\/22611","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=22611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22613,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22611\/revisions\/22613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mst3kinfo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}