{"id":11851,"date":"2010-10-07T22:47:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T05:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=11851"},"modified":"2010-10-07T22:47:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T05:47:31","slug":"ward-was-drawn-to-the-novelty-of-her-new-york-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2010\/10\/ward-was-drawn-to-the-novelty-of-her-new-york-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Ward Was Drawn To The &#8216;Novelty&#8217; Of Her &#8216;New York&#8217; Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playing a former FBI agent and crime scene investigator is an unfamiliar experience for veteran actress <b>Sela Ward<\/b> (<i>CSI: New York&#8217;<\/i>s Jo Danville). &#8220;It&#8217;s completely different from anything I&#8217;ve ever done before,&#8221; Ward told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2010\/10\/06\/2525936\/five-questions-with-sela-ward.html\">Star-Telegram<\/a>. &#8220;That was the main attraction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe newcomer admitted she doesn&#8217;t have &#8220;a head for science&#8221;. She added, &#8220;In school, I didn&#8217;t like classes like biology. So playing a character like Jo Danville is a novelty for me. It&#8217;s also a little difficult in terms of dialogue and understanding what I&#8217;m saying and why, but I&#8217;m trying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nWard may not be a scientist at heart, but she can connect to other aspects of her character. &#8220;Other than the science, most of the things about her are close to a comfort zone for me: her wit and humor and mysteriousness and a little bit of an artistic edge,&#8221; the actress explained. &#8220;I&#8217;m very at home there.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing a former FBI agent and crime scene investigator is an unfamiliar experience for veteran&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2908],"tags":[3055],"class_list":["post-11851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-ny","tag-ward"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-ny\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI: New York<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI: New York","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11851"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11855,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions\/11855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}