{"id":24543,"date":"2026-06-10T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24543"},"modified":"2026-06-07T13:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:08:28","slug":"ugh-cliffhangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24543","title":{"rendered":"Ugh, Cliffhangers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got a free 7-day trial of BritBox because I thought that <em>The Other Bennet Sister<\/em> looked interesting. I should have investigated first, though, because only 5 of the 10 episodes had been released at that point. I watched all five and then waited impatiently for the 6th episode, then the 7th, and now I&#8217;m waiting for the 8th. The show feels like an extension of the Ehle\/Firth version of <em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em> (one of the best things ever made for TV) and consequently I can&#8217;t help but like it. My only major complaint is the cliffhangers. I hate being manipulated that way almost as much as I hate waiting to find out what happens next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a free 7-day trial of BritBox because I thought that The Other Bennet Sister looked interesting. I should have investigated first, though, because only 5 of the 10 episodes had been released at that point. I watched all &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24543\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24544,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24543\/revisions\/24544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}