{"id":16114,"date":"2012-04-02T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T14:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16114"},"modified":"2012-04-02T10:34:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T14:34:53","slug":"little-mosque-on-the-prairie-to-be-put-out-of-its-misery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/little-mosque-on-the-prairie-to-be-put-out-of-its-misery\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Mosque on the Prairie to be put out of its misery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a time and a place for mercy killing and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/arts\/story\/2012\/04\/01\/little-mosque-ends.html?cmp=rss\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> is long overdue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CBC\u2019s ground-breaking show<em> Little Mosque on the Prairie<\/em> draws to a close Monday night, remaining true to the \u201cordinary folks\u201d portrayal of Muslims it has practised from the outset.<\/p>\n<p>When the show debuted in 2007, it drew attention to the then-radical idea of showing Muslims living in a Western society in a TV sitcom. The show was created by a Muslim woman, Zarqa Nawaz, who spoke to the New York Times, the BBC and media outlets around the world about her concept for the show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Little Mosque<\/em> never managed to extricate itself from the mire of cringingly humourless political correctness and would not have been aired at all were not for the yearly $1.5 billion the CBC receives from taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that most of <em>Little Mosque&#8217;s<\/em> fan mail comes from Anglican clergy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a time and a place for mercy killing and this one is long overdue: CBC\u2019s ground-breaking show Little Mosque on the Prairie draws to a close Monday night, remaining true to the \u201cordinary folks\u201d portrayal of Muslims it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/little-mosque-on-the-prairie-to-be-put-out-of-its-misery\/\">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":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[1013],"class_list":["post-16114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-little-mosque-on-the-prairie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}