{"id":141,"date":"2004-11-16T15:57:48","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T15:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2004-11-16T15:57:48","modified_gmt":"2004-11-16T15:57:48","slug":"programming_note_the_return_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2004\/11\/16\/programming_note_the_return_of\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming Note: The Return of the Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a reminder that the Best Reality Show on Television, the Emmy Award-winning <i>Amazing Race<\/i>, kicks off its sixth run tonight at 8 PM, MST. As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I generally despise reality TV, but <i>The Amazing Race<\/i> is different. Instead of wallowing in the worst of human nature and finding ever-more disgusting ways to break people&#8217;s spirits (<i>Fear Factor<\/i>, I am talking to you), this show is a celebration of all the cool stuff the world has to offer as well as a generally positive portrayal of how people can overcome their own limitations.<\/p>\n<p>This new <i>Race<\/i> cycle promises to be especially interesting for my fellow Utahns, as it includes a pair of sisters from the next county south of mine. Tune in tonight and show a little hometown spirit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a reminder that the Best Reality Show on Television, the Emmy Award-winning Amazing Race, kicks off its sixth run tonight at 8 PM, MST. As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, I generally despise reality TV, but The Amazing Race is different. Instead of wallowing in the worst of human nature and finding ever-more disgusting ways to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-glass-teat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}