{"id":8184,"date":"2015-04-11T18:12:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T22:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8184"},"modified":"2015-04-17T11:20:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T15:20:59","slug":"review-joss-whedon-the-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2015\/04\/11\/review-joss-whedon-the-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Joss Whedon: The Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/22818041\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1406328745m\/22818041.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Joss Whedon: The Biography\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/22818041\">Joss Whedon: The Biography<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7382937\">Amy Pascale<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1222418626\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      This biography is essentially a greatly expanded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0923736\/\">Joss Whedon IMDB.com<\/a> filmography. Pascale carefully tells the behind the scenes stories about his career.<\/p>\n<p>I arrived late to the Whedonverse. Yes, the fandom has a name. Essentially, I saw Serenity in the movie theater, borrowed Firefly from my roommate, and was hooked from there. Well, maybe not enough to see Cabin In The Woods. I am not that rabid. <\/p>\n<p>Pascale puts into words why I enjoy Joss&#8217; work. Strong female characters. Depth. Ensemble casts. Early movies I had no idea he was involved now make sense why I liked them.<\/p>\n<p>I may have to start checking out the current work of writers who used to work with him to see if I enjoy that as well.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1222418626\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joss Whedon: The Biography by Amy Pascale My rating: 4 of 5 stars This biography is essentially a greatly expanded Joss Whedon IMDB.com filmography. Pascale carefully tells the behind the scenes stories about his career. I arrived late to the Whedonverse. Yes, the fandom has a name. Essentially, I saw Serenity in the movie theater, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[256],"tags":[2706],"class_list":["post-8184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-novels-writing","tag-book-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-280","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}