{"id":845,"date":"2007-08-15T09:35:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2007-08-15T09:35:17","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T16:35:17","slug":"hbo-closes-out-on-john-from-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"HBO Closes Out on John From Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/ep5-cass-john-252.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/ep5-cass-john-252.jpg','popup','width=252,height=190,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/ep5-cass-john-252-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ep5 Cass John 252\" \/><\/a>Being fans of both <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kem_Nunn\" target=\"_blank\">Kem Nunn<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><em>Deadwood<\/em><\/strong> creator <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Milch\" target=\"_blank\">David Milch<\/a><\/strong> we awaited their new show <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/johnfromcincinnati\/about\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">John From Cincinnati<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>with anticipation because it featured a beach town (like Carlsbad) and surfers (like us, sort of). <\/p>\n<p>The <strong>HBO<\/strong> series centered around a troubled family of formerly famous surfers from Imperial Beach (some claim it was loosely based on San Clemente&#8217;s <strong>Fletcher<\/strong> family) who encounter a strange, seemly autistic man named John, who claims to be from Cincinnati. John has come to get the family &#8220;back in the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When the show arrived Sunday nights on HBO we were intrigued. Rarely does a beach community, (or surfers in general) appear in the mainstream media with serious representation. As the weeks wound down to last Sunday&#8217;s finale, however, the show drifted so far in to the metaphysical realm of surf as metaphor for spirituality and marketing as religion that even the show&#8217;s writers seemed to get lost.<\/p>\n<p>They won&#8217;t be lost any longer. HBO has announced that it is canceling <em>John From Cincinnati<\/em>. The ratings never picked up, and the fact was, the show was complex and confusing. &#8220;A spokeswoman for HBO declined to comment on the reasons for &#8220;John&#8221; &#8216;s cancellation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/metro\/20070815-9999-1m15john.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being fans of both Kem Nunn and Deadwood creator David Milch we awaited their new show John From Cincinnati with anticipation because it featured a beach town (like Carlsbad) and surfers (like us, sort of). The HBO series centered around a troubled family of formerly famous surfers from Imperial Beach (some claim it was loosely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}