{"id":102,"date":"2008-06-13T11:03:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T16:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theackattack.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2008-06-13T11:03:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T16:03:39","slug":"james-callis-on-gaius-baltar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theackattack.net\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"James Callis on Gaius Baltar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The A.V. Club has an excellent interview with James Callis (Gaius Baltar) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/content\/interview\/battlestar_galacticas_james\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s some phrase, I think it&#8217;s in Chaucer, about how everything that&#8217;s written is didactic. As soon as you write something down, as long as it&#8217;s not a shopping list, it&#8217;s some idea about the world. It&#8217;s Michel de Montaigne writing his essays, it&#8217;s Plato writing The Republic, it&#8217;s Ron writing Battlestar. All of these things concern human beings, and somebody&#8217;s idea about them. Everything that we write is to teach ourselves in some way to behave better, to think more, or to think differently. And if the thing you&#8217;re doing doesn&#8217;t actually address any of those, then maybe you are writing a shopping list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I really do believe James Callis is one of the most talented actors on TV right now.  He&#8217;s just so <i>lovely<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A.V. Club has an excellent interview with James Callis (Gaius Baltar) HERE. There&#8217;s some phrase, I think it&#8217;s in Chaucer, about how everything that&#8217;s written is didactic. As soon as you write something down, as long as it&#8217;s not a shopping list, it&#8217;s some idea about the world. It&#8217;s Michel de Montaigne writing his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[317,45],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bsg","category-tv","tag-battlestar-galactica","tag-james-callis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theackattack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theackattack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theackattack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theackattack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theackattack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theackattack.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theackattack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theackattack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theackattack.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}