{"id":9661,"date":"2021-01-16T11:27:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T11:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simondunn.me.uk\/?p=9661"},"modified":"2021-01-16T11:27:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T11:27:40","slug":"the-greatest-american-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simondunn.me.uk\/?p=9661","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest American Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The whole thrust of the following is this: why have I never seen the show <em>The Greatest American Hero<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we&#8217;ll get to that in a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, here&#8217;s the opening title sequence for the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greatest American Hero Theme Intro Believe it or Not\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yb4C7vSByMM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So that resolves a <em>Seinfeld <\/em>moment that I&#8217;ve never fully understood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/SrkKvk2Lrjw\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Greatest American Hero was a show about a man who is given a suit by aliens, a suit that emboldens him with superpowers. It was created by Stephen J Cannell (yes, <em>The A-Team<\/em> guy), and ran for three seasons on ABC from 1981 to 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But from what I can see, it never aired in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have no idea why. This is the sort of show I would have lapped up at that time, and that age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fortunately, it&#8217;s on some streaming services right now, so I can remedy this oversight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/wv01piUB6uM\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simondunn.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/greatest-american-hero.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9662\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simondunn.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/greatest-american-hero.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.simondunn.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/greatest-american-hero-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.simondunn.me.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/greatest-american-hero-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whole thrust of the following is this: why have I never seen the show The Greatest American Hero? But we&#8217;ll get to that in a bit. First, here&#8217;s the opening title sequence for the series. So that resolves a Seinfeld moment that I&#8217;ve never fully understood. The Greatest American Hero was a show about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,30,34],"tags":[526],"class_list":["post-9661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedy","category-seinfeld","category-us","tag-the-greatest-american-hero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simondunn.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simondunn.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simondunn.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simondunn.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simondunn.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.simondunn.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9663,"href":"http:\/\/www.simondunn.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions\/9663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simondunn.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simondunn.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simondunn.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simondunn.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}