{"id":1690,"date":"2013-06-04T16:04:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T20:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2013-06-04T16:04:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T20:04:42","slug":"top-101-best-written-tv-shows-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=1690","title":{"rendered":"Top 101 Best Written TV Shows of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/entertainment\/2013\/06\/wga-101-best-written-tv-series-all-time\/65815\/\">According to members of the Writers Guild of America<\/a>. The top 10:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Sopranos<\/li>\n<li>Seinfeld<\/li>\n<li>The Twilight Zone (1959) <\/li>\n<li>All in the Family <\/li>\n<li>M*A*S*H<\/li>\n<li>The Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/li>\n<li>Mad Men<\/li>\n<li>Cheers<\/li>\n<li>The Wire<\/li>\n<li>The West Wing<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wga.org\/uploadedfiles\/news_and_events\/101_TV_Series\/tv101list-press.pdf\">Link to the PDF of the whole thing.<\/a> The Simpsons is 11. (?) (though one could argue going to 11 is a good thing). But House tied with Murphy Brown and below 24? Beats Monty Python? There&#8217;s no getting it right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to members of the Writers Guild of America. The top 10: The Sopranos Seinfeld The Twilight Zone (1959) All in the Family M*A*S*H The Mary Tyler Moore Show Mad Men Cheers The Wire The West Wing Link to the PDF of the whole thing. The Simpsons is 11. (?) (though one could argue going to 11 is a good &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}