{"id":770,"date":"2007-07-13T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=770"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:44:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:44:49","slug":"book-log-finding-serenity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Finding Serenity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Finding Serenity: Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds, and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon&#8217;s Firefly<\/i> Edited by Jane Espenson<\/p>\n<p>The second fan book I read in a row.  A series of essays by random people (including one by the Kaylee actress), written before the movie came out.<\/p>\n<p>There was a funny parody of how Fox decided to cancel the series, told through a fictional series of memos sent to Joss.<\/p>\n<p>There was a somewhat interesting history of westerns and sci-fi, and how Gene Roddenberry, while doing great things, also ruined it for everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Jewel Staite just wrote a piece about her favorite bits from the episodes.  Bleh.<\/p>\n<p>A little bit about the story behind <i>Firefly<\/i> creation and production.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I&#8217;m just going to stop reading books about TV series.  I&#8217;m not a hardcore fanboy at heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding Serenity: Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds, and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon&#8217;s Firefly Edited by Jane Espenson The second fan book I read in a row. A series of essays by random people (including one by the Kaylee actress), written before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=770\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[494,249],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2","tag-book-log-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3433,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/3433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}