{"id":466,"date":"2012-06-05T19:28:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T00:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=466"},"modified":"2012-06-05T19:28:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T00:28:42","slug":"credit-where-credit-is-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Credit Where Credit Is Due"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-468\" title=\"calamityJane\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/calamityJane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"268\" \/>A while back, <a title=\"Fictional Realism\" href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=315\">I grumbled about a scene<\/a> in <em>Hell on Wheels<\/em> where they show someone using a transit improperly, and, more to the point, show a view through what appears to be a rifle scope rather than something with stadia hairs when they switched to the &#8220;through the scope&#8221; view.\u00a0 Well, I recently saw an episode of <em>Deadwood<\/em> where the appear to gotten it right, showing a scope view with proper surveying hairs rather than crosshairs.\u00a0 So good on you, <em>Deadwood<\/em>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll just point out that Deadwood won a whole bunch of Emmys, much as I pointed out before that Mad Men, a show with obsessive attention to historical detail, has also won a bunch of stuff.\u00a0 I think we can safely conclude that careful placation of technically-minded nerds pretty much inevitably results in awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I grumbled about a scene in Hell on Wheels where they show someone using a transit improperly, and, more to the point, show a view through what appears to be a rifle scope rather than something with stadia hairs when they switched to the &#8220;through the scope&#8221; view.\u00a0 Well, I recently saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}