{"id":2204,"date":"2008-10-07T05:52:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T12:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2009-10-22T15:26:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T22:26:03","slug":"household-name-in-cbs-watching-households","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/household-name-in-cbs-watching-households\/","title":{"rendered":"Household Name In CBS-Watching Households?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/10\/51-h4igghyl_ss500_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2209\" title=\"BigBang\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/10\/51-h4igghyl_ss500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/51-h4igghyl_ss500_.jpg 500w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/51-h4igghyl_ss500_-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/51-h4igghyl_ss500_-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mondays-at-8:00 sitcom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/primetime\/big_bang_theory\/\"><em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em><\/a> is actually funny enough to lure me to CBS for a half hour a week, even if it means tolerating that network&#8217;s trademark smell of Metamucil spillages and mummification spices. As part of last night&#8217;s episode &#8220;The Barbarian Sublimation&#8221; in which Penny (Kaley Cuoco), her self-esteem cratering, became addicted to <em>Age of Conan<\/em>, the writers made sure to have breakout character Sheldon (Jim Parsons) emphasize that the game was set in the universe of <em>Robert E. Howard&#8217;s <\/em>creation.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the subsequent references to places and players were game-inventions rather than authentically Howardian, but <a href=\"http:\/\/aoc.wikia.com\/wiki\/Tortage\">Tortage<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/aoc.wikia.com\/wiki\/Purple_Lotus_Swamp\">Swamps of the Purple Lotus<\/a> got name-checked, so not too shabby, all in all. Plus, no one used the term <a href=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=1088\">Hyboria<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/10\/61ir2lovxdl_ss400_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2210\" title=\"AoC\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/10\/61ir2lovxdl_ss400_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/61ir2lovxdl_ss400_.jpg 360w, http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/61ir2lovxdl_ss400_-271x300.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mondays-at-8:00 sitcom The Big Bang Theory is actually funny enough to lure me to CBS for a half hour a week, even if it means tolerating that network&#8217;s trademark smell of Metamucil spillages and mummification spices. As part of last night&#8217;s episode &#8220;The Barbarian Sublimation&#8221; in which Penny (Kaley Cuoco), her self-esteem cratering, became addicted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robert-e-howard","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6554,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/6554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}