{"id":1767,"date":"2015-03-23T19:31:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T19:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2015-03-23T19:31:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T19:31:58","slug":"the-slap-beyond-the-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/2015\/03\/23\/the-slap-beyond-the-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Slap-Beyond the Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems as though\u00a0<em>The Slap<\/em> is getting more comfortable in its new 10 pm timeslot on NBC. After taking a hit on 3\/12 and dropping to 2.74 million viewers with a 0.6\/2 rating, it rose closer to the numbers from previous weeks with 3.18 million viewers and a 0.7\/2 rating. With 2 episodes left, I expect the ratings to stay around this zone.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Slap<\/em> was recently prominently featured in a\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/22\/nyregion\/the-slap-resonates-in-scooter-infested-park-slope.html?_r=0\">New York Times<\/a><\/em> article. A woman who lives in Brooklyn (where the show takes place) was walking down the street and nearly run over by a young boy on a scooter, prompting her to yell an expletive at the child. His mother was appalled but the &#8220;victim&#8217;s&#8221; community (read: Facebook friends) supported her actions, some even feeling she didn&#8217;t go far enough. It seems these kinds of discussions on parenting styles are being fueled by the show. Even if they haven&#8217;t seen it, the people of Brooklyn have an opinion. One resident said, &#8220;These are some of the most hateful people you will find, until, of course you leave your apartment.&#8221; So even if <i>The Slap<\/i> isn&#8217;t winning in the ratings, they seem to have struck a cord of realism, at least in their New York setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems as though\u00a0The Slap is getting more comfortable in its new 10 pm timeslot on NBC. After taking a hit on 3\/12 and dropping to 2.74 million viewers with a 0.6\/2 rating, it rose closer to the numbers from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/2015\/03\/23\/the-slap-beyond-the-screen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[102,404,266,499,224,91,392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}