{"id":6588,"date":"2016-01-25T12:53:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T17:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=6588"},"modified":"2016-03-28T13:22:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T17:22:18","slug":"bay-state-celebrates-150-episodes","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/bay-state-celebrates-150-episodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay State Celebrates 150 Episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any other school with Beacon Hill College\u2019s reputation for trouble would long ago have been shuttered. But after 26 years of blackmail, cults, a serial killer, and numerous other lurid plotlines, the fictional college forming the backdrop of BU\u2019s student-run soap opera Bay State is alive and well. The show\u2014believed to be the nation\u2019s oldest college soap opera\u2014marks a milestone Thursday evening, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.butv10.com\/\">BUTV10<\/a> airs its 150th episode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate the freedom as well as the history that the show has,\u201d says Bay State head writer Tom Laverriere \u201917, who first discovered the show while he was in high school. \u201cIt\u2019s fun for me and the writing team to look back at what\u2019s been done and to keep it fresh and keep it going.\u201d<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2016\/bay-state-butv10\/\" class=\"button bg-green\">Read the full article in BU Today<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any other school with Beacon Hill College\u2019s reputation for trouble would long ago have been shuttered. But after 26 years&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10949,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[510,98,1276,904],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/6588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/6588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6646,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/6588\/revisions\/6646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6588"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=6588"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=6588"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=6588"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=6588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}