{"id":756,"date":"2006-11-24T10:10:12","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T15:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=756"},"modified":"2006-11-24T10:10:12","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T15:10:12","slug":"daytime-tv-will-devour-your-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/?p=756","title":{"rendered":"Daytime TV will devour your soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/rayflames.jpg\" title=\"rayflames.jpg\" alt=\"rayflames.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" height=\"145\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" width=\"114\" \/>I&#8217;m sitting at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalcity-ford.com\/\">Capitol City Ford<\/a> while my Explorer gets its 12,000 oil change and general &#8216;turn your head and cough&#8217; checkup, trying to get some work done for my meeting in Sacramento next week, and I&#8217;ve made the mistake taking my headphones off.  Over the course of the last 25 minutes or so, I&#8217;ve been subjected to the inane ranting of Regis and Kelly, and the soul-devouring vapidity of Rachael Ray.  (Oh boy!  The &#8216;snack of the day is Asiago Cheese Straws!  KILL ME NOW.)  I know that I&#8217;m not in the target demographic for these shows, but I don&#8217;t understand how these shows are fit for any kind of human consumption.  Seriously, I can feel my brain cells committing ritual suicide as I type this.<\/p>\n<p>I miss daytime game shows.  OK, maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Match_Game\">Match Game<\/a> wasn&#8217;t exactly the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Algonquin_Round_Table\">Algonquin Round Table<\/a>, but it was at least good for a laugh.  And, hell, I probably learned more about math from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/daytime\/price\/\">The Price is Right<\/a> than I learned in my first two years of elementary school.  (At the very least, I was playing pricing games at a 5th grade level.)<\/p>\n<p>I reckon that, at some point, a network executive decided that it was more economical to produce 1 hour of Rosie, BabaWawa, et al droning on and on about <em>absolutely nothing<\/em> for an hour each day than to produce 30 minutes of actual entertainment.  I could never subject viewers like me to that kind of torture &#8211; so I guess I&#8217;d make a lousy network executive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting at Capitol City Ford while my Explorer gets its 12,000 oil change and general &#8216;turn your head and cough&#8217; checkup, trying to get some work done for my meeting in Sacramento next week, and I&#8217;ve made the mistake taking my headphones off. Over the course of the last 25 minutes or so, I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hxip-cc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.m-dnovember.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}