{"id":2721,"date":"2014-10-09T01:13:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T07:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2014-10-09T01:13:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T07:13:33","slug":"episode-154-saturday-morning-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=2721","title":{"rendered":"Episode 154: Saturday Morning is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5593\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2721-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep154.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep154.mp3\">https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep154.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep154.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?powerpress_pinw=2721-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep154.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"ep154.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sat_abc_1980.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sat_abc_1980-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"sat_abc_1980\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sat_abc_1980-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/sat_abc_1980.jpg 515w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>Confession time.  With episode 122 of Animation Aficionados, we jumped the gun.  We mourned the loss of Saturday morning, but we didn&#8217;t actually realize that this year would mark its official death.  This past Saturday, there were no major networks running cartoon blocks.  It&#8217;s dead.  It&#8217;s finally dead!  You maniacs!  You blew it all up!<\/p>\n<p>So join Ben and myself as we retread this topic. It&#8217;s truly a sad time to be a child of the 80s.  We&#8217;ll miss you Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>We had some good times.  Waking up at the ass crack of dawn.  Setting the VCR.  Eating shitty cereal.  Oogling at the toy commercials.  And most importantly, consuming the very worst that Hanna-Barbara, Ruby-Spears, and Dic had to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confession time. With episode 122 of Animation Aficionados, we jumped the gun. We mourned the loss of Saturday morning, but we didn&#8217;t actually realize that this year would mark its official death. This past Saturday, there were no major networks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=2721\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}