{"id":909,"date":"2019-03-26T10:02:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T17:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/?p=909"},"modified":"2019-04-04T09:41:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T16:41:32","slug":"are-you-watching-american-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/26\/are-you-watching-american-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"are you watching American Gods?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are you watching American Gods?  If you&#8217;re not, you should be.  It&#8217;s a Starz series based on a book by  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/\">Neil Gaiman.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I myself am a little late to the party &#8211; Season 2 just began but I&#8217;ve just started Season 1; I&#8217;m a little more than half way in.   So far, my favorite scene is from episode 1, the one with  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1462340\/\">Yetide Badaki<\/a> playing the goddess Bilquis.  (As the directors stated at end of the episode, she&#8217;s every white man&#8217;s nightmare.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MV5BNDA5MDAxMDI5OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDQ3MjgzMjI@._V1_SX1500_CR001500999_AL_.jpg?fit=640%2C426\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-910\" width=\"525\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MV5BNDA5MDAxMDI5OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDQ3MjgzMjI@._V1_SX1500_CR001500999_AL_.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MV5BNDA5MDAxMDI5OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDQ3MjgzMjI@._V1_SX1500_CR001500999_AL_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MV5BNDA5MDAxMDI5OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDQ3MjgzMjI@._V1_SX1500_CR001500999_AL_-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MV5BNDA5MDAxMDI5OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDQ3MjgzMjI@._V1_SX1500_CR001500999_AL_-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This below is a recap of season one.  Watch it if you don&#8217;t mind spoilers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nlGA4l2irbg\">The Story So Far: Season 1 | American Gods | Prime Video<\/a><\/h4><p>Take a look back at the story and relive the mythology of American Gods, Season One in under 15 minutes. Contains Season One spoilers. Enjoy this refresher before Season Two begins &#8211; from 11 March 2019 on Amazon Prime Video.<\/p><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> If you are watching, share your thoughts.  <\/p>\n<div><p align=center><font color=\"#FF0000\">Thank you <font color=\"#FF6347\">for reading <font color=\"#FFA500\">today's post. \r\n<font color=\"#FFD700\">Have <font color=\"00FF00\">an <font color=\"40E0D0\">InterStellar <font color=\"800080\">Day! <font color=\"FE09FF\"> ~PrP   <\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you watching American Gods? If you&#8217;re not, you should be. It&#8217;s a Starz series based on a book by Neil Gaiman. I myself am a little late to the party &#8211; Season 2 just began but I&#8217;ve just started &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/26\/are-you-watching-american-gods\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[359,361,360,362],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-american-gods","tag-neil-gaiman","tag-television-series","tag-yetide-badaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orderlyrandomness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}