{"id":84,"date":"2006-05-18T08:26:30","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T15:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2007-09-16T15:10:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-16T22:10:22","slug":"the-dumbing-down-of-virtually-everything-part-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"The Dumbing Down of Virtually Everything (Part V)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m working the early shift this month, I get to spend time with Donna in the afternoons. Today, though, we&#8217;re doing different things: I&#8217;m checking e-mail in the office while she embroiders hash hats in the sewing room. She&#8217;s got the TV on in there, listening to Doctor Phil while she works.<\/p>\n<p>And what did I just overhear? A woman squealing like a pig? Doctor Phil talking about the features of a car? More squealing? God damn . . . Doctor Phil just <em>gave away a car<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Oprah did it. I guess it was inevitable that Doctor Phil would have to start doing it too. Pretty soon all the daily talk show hosts will have to do it. Bread and circuses!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=38\">Once again<\/a>, I humbly ask: where is it written that the Stupids have to win?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m working the early shift this month, I get to spend time with Donna in the afternoons. Today, though, we&#8217;re doing different things: I&#8217;m checking e-mail in the office while she embroiders hash hats in the sewing room. She&#8217;s got the TV on in there, listening to Doctor Phil while she works. And what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}