{"id":1444060,"date":"2022-04-14T12:05:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T16:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=1444060"},"modified":"2022-11-01T12:06:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:06:36","slug":"the-6-best-and-worst-tv-show-adaptations-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/the-6-best-and-worst-tv-show-adaptations-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The 6 Best and Worst TV Show Adaptations of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/netflixwitcher13reasonswhyMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1449459\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the whole, I prefer TV shows to movies because they allow me to at least entertain the possibility that I might get up off the couch after 30-45 minutes and go do something else. (I won&#8217;t, of course, but I can at least pretend that I might.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TV shows are also pretty great for reasons that have nothing to do with my countless personal shortcomings. For instance, they make for some pretty decent book adaptations. That&#8217;s not to say that movies don&#8217;t, but when you turn a book into a TV show, there&#8217;s just a lot more room with which to do the source material justice. There&#8217;s also a lot more room to screw things up completely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And speaking of which, here are 6 examples of each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the whole, I prefer TV shows to movies because they allow me to at least entertain the possibility that I might get up off the couch after 30-45 minutes and go do something else.   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[25143,8774,7681,25141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444060"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444060"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449460,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444060\/revisions\/1449460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}