{"id":9199,"date":"2015-06-29T15:41:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T19:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=9199"},"modified":"2015-06-29T15:41:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T19:41:51","slug":"how-i-reacted-to-the-news-of-hannibals-cancellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=9199","title":{"rendered":"How I reacted to the news of Hannibal&#8217;s cancellation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my writing retreat up north last week, we actually did have a teensy bit of 4G at times. And during one of those times, Bronwyn Green found the most distressing news:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/kateaurthur\/nbc-has-canceled-hannibal#.kwjMd9OGL\">NBC had cancelled\u00a0<em>Hannibal<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m die hard fangurl of Thomas Harris&#8217;s novels and the movies of them, but\u00a0<em>Hannibal<\/em>\u00a0is some next level slash-fanfic and I can&#8217;t get enough of it. And while Netflix and Amazon are apparently both courting the idea of picking up the show, in those first dark hours, I did not take the news of the cancellation well at all:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/768.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9200 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/768.jpeg\" alt=\"Me lying face down on the floor, taken from a really unflattering angle\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/768.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/768-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FOR THE RECORD my feet were only that dirty because I&#8217;d just been outside shoeless, walking\u00a0in pine sap.<\/p>\n<p>After a while, my friends became concerned about me. They possibly also wanted me to wash my feet, which smelled strongly of Christmas tree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/771.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9201 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/771.jpeg\" alt=\"Me, still laying on the floor.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/771.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/771-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But I wouldn&#8217;t get up. I just laid there, softly weeping at the unfairness of a world that would cancel not just\u00a0<em>Hannibal<\/em>, but\u00a0<em>Covington Cross<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr.<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Mindy Project<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Futurama<\/em> that one time.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually they thought they could tempt me off the floor with promises of cookies and milk&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/774.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9202 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/774.jpeg\" alt=\"Me laying on the floor with a package of oreos beside my head and a cup of milk with a  series of straws attached to each other form one long straw.\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/774.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/774-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But they had to build a special straw to get me to go for it.<\/p>\n<p>It is my hope that eventually,\u00a0<em>Hannibal\u00a0<\/em>will also be given cookies and milk on the floor, in the form of a new life on Amazon or Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned this week for another\u00a0<em>Grey\u00a0<\/em>recap and probably more about my upper peninsula adventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my writing retreat up north last week, we actually did have a teensy bit of 4G at times. And during one of those times,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=9199\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How I reacted to the news of Hannibal&#8217;s cancellation.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9205,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199\/revisions\/9205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}