{"id":1743,"date":"2006-11-14T22:28:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T22:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/14\/flyover_america\/"},"modified":"2006-11-14T22:28:39","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T22:28:39","slug":"flyover_america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/14\/flyover_america\/","title":{"rendered":"FLYOVER AMERICA AND STUDIO 60 (and my trip to Syracuse)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pledge, which I accidentally violated, was to post every day in November.&nbsp; A promise is a promise and I am trying.&nbsp; Tonight after a wacky 36 hour trip to Syracuse (don&#8217;t ask) I&#8217;m so tired I&#8217;m hallucinating.&nbsp; I was guilty the whole time I was there because it felt so small and it was winter-grey besides.&nbsp; Couldn&#8217;t get into it.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=112,height=85,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/dontgelyet.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/pittsburgh_incline.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pittsburgh_incline\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Pittsburgh_incline\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/dontgeltoosoon\/images\/pittsburgh_incline.jpg?resize=100%2C75\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> From childhood family visits to my cousins and our current annual trips to the Cleveland Clinic I&#8217;ve grown perversely fond of Cleveland &#8211; and I grew up in Pittsburgh so I have a real feeling for it.&nbsp; But lots of smaller cities just feel claustrophobic and kind of disappointed.&nbsp; This was one of them although the people we met were lovely and very friendly &#8212; like Midwesterners.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=400,height=267,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/dontgelyet.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/harriet_and_hughley.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Harriet_and_hughley\" height=\"66\" alt=\"Harriet_and_hughley\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/dontgeltoosoon\/images\/harriet_and_hughley.jpg?resize=100%2C66\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> Which reminds me (stay with me here) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Studio_60_on_the_Sunset_Strip\/\">Studio 60<\/a> is fun.&nbsp; I loved seeing John Goodman make all the coastal liberals (of course I AM one) squirm &#8211; and say several things that were true and also are what&#8217;s wrong with my political tribe, in my opinion.&nbsp; About those uppity liberals who think everyone between the coasts is stupid.<\/p>\n<p>The show has a determination to look at this issue I think &#8211; not only in a Nevada courtroom but also through the constant dialog between Matt (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Studio_60_on_the_Sunset_Strip\/bios\/matthew_perry.shtml\">Matthew Perry&#8217;s<\/a> character) and Harriet (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Studio_60_on_the_Sunset_Strip\/bios\/sarah_paulson.shtml\">Sarah Paulson<\/a>) &#8212; probably the most beautiful woman I&#8217;ve seen on TV in a long time &#8212; maybe ever.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to bed now and sleep off the last of the airplane air before I have to get on another plane Friday and get to Orlando before Shabat.&nbsp; G&#8217;nite. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pledge, which I accidentally violated, was to post every day in November.&nbsp; A promise is a promise and I am trying.&nbsp; Tonight after a wacky 36 hour trip to Syracuse (don&#8217;t ask) I&#8217;m so tired I&#8217;m hallucinating.&nbsp; I was guilty the whole time I was there because it felt so small and it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/14\/flyover_america\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FLYOVER AMERICA AND STUDIO 60 (and my trip to Syracuse)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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,"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}},"categories":[6,7,97,78],"tags":[2462,2300,2464,2461,2465,2459,2463,2460,261],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-life","category-television","category-travel","tag-cleveland","tag-liberals","tag-matthew-perry","tag-pittsburgh","tag-sarah-paulson","tag-studio-60","tag-syracuse","tag-television-flyover-america","tag-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-s7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}