{"id":14464,"date":"2011-03-29T22:44:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T05:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=14464"},"modified":"2011-03-29T22:44:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T05:44:10","slug":"ward-joined-new-york-for-the-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2011\/03\/ward-joined-new-york-for-the-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Ward Joined &#8216;New York&#8217; For The &#8216;Challenge&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Sela Ward<\/b> joined the cast of <I>CSI: New York<\/i> because the character of Jo Danville was a departure from her usual roles. &#8220;It is very different from what I have done before and that&#8217;s why I decided to give it a shot,&#8221; the actress told <I>Sun2Surf<\/i>. &#8220;For me, that&#8217;s the way you keep growing, when you challenge yourself and do things you have never done before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I really love who Jo is. She is a strong, smart woman and I love her sense of humour,&#8221; Ward added. However, <I>CSI: NY<\/i> concentrates on the crimes, and details about the characters&#8217; lives are revealed slowly over time. &#8220;[Y]ou don&#8217;t really find out everything about the characters because that is the nature of the show,&#8221; the actress explained, &#8220;so you don&#8217;t really get to the underbelly of who they are.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe full interview is available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesundaily.com\/article.cfm?id=59348\">Sun2Surf<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sela Ward joined the cast of CSI: New York because the character of Jo Danville&#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-14464","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\/14464","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=14464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14466,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14464\/revisions\/14466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}