{"id":715,"date":"2006-09-11T04:17:12","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T12:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2006\/09\/11\/entertainment-i-could-do-without\/"},"modified":"2006-09-11T04:17:12","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T12:17:12","slug":"entertainment-i-could-do-without","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/11\/entertainment-i-could-do-without","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment I Could Do Without"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social networking sites like the Facebook often ask you to list your favorite books, movies, and music. I understand the reasoning they\u2019re using, but sometimes I wonder about what people really dislike.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lest ye wonder the same about me, here\u2019s my list of entertainment I could do without:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In radio, I could do without <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/fa\/about\/\">Fresh Air with Terry Gross<\/a>. I just don\u2019t like her interviews. She\u2019s got a wonderful reputation and so I\u2019m sure she\u2019s great at what she does, but I just don\u2019t connect with her. And I LOVE talk&nbsp;radio.<\/li>\n<li>On television, I could do without <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bravotv.com\/Project_Runway\/\">Project Runway<\/a>. Paula loves this reality show, but I just don\u2019t get it. Most fashion is ugly anyway \u2014 nobody really likes it except for those in the fashion industry. Even the supermodels who demo the outfits don\u2019t wear that stuff when they don\u2019t have&nbsp;to.<\/li>\n<li>In the world of letters, I could do without the books by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isfdb.org\/cgi-bin\/ea.cgi?Brian_Herbert\">Brian Herbert<\/a>. Frank Herbert\u2019s son has been writing science fiction novels just like his dad did. One problem: he\u2019s not his&nbsp;dad.<\/li>\n<li>And in the world of music, I could do without <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hip_hop_music\">hip hop<\/a>. I know it\u2019s hip (by definition \u2014 see name) and all the kids are diggin\u2019 it, but it just doesn\u2019t do it for me. I can appreciate the bizarre genius that goes into crafting the rhymes and that are rockin\u2019 our times, but Dr. Seuss retired that genre years ago. Everything else is purely derivative.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that\u2019s my anti-profile. You may now judge me by the things I don\u2019t&nbsp;like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social networking sites like the Facebook often ask you to list your favorite books, movies, and music. I understand the reasoning they\u2019re using, but sometimes I wonder about what people really dislike.&nbsp; Lest ye wonder the same about me, here\u2019s my list of entertainment I could do without: In radio, I could do without Fresh \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/11\/entertainment-i-could-do-without\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cEntertainment I Could Do Without\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-opinions-and-general-contrariness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-bx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}