{"id":716,"date":"2006-09-12T05:48:11","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T13:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2006\/09\/12\/entertainment-i-adore\/"},"modified":"2006-09-12T05:48:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T13:48:11","slug":"entertainment-i-adore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/12\/entertainment-i-adore","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment I&nbsp;Adore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I mentioned some of <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2006\/09\/11\/entertainment-i-could-do-without\/\">my least-favorite entertainment<\/a>, today is the opposite-entertainment I&nbsp;adore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Radio:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisprager.com\/\">Dennis Prager<\/a> is the man. He\u2019s smart, reasonable, and thinks out loud in an interesting way. If your local radio doesn\u2019t carry him then it\u2019s your loss. Honorable mentions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/\">Ira Flatow<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hughhewitt.townhall.com\/\">Hugh Hewitt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Television:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MythBusters\">Mythbusters<\/a> is clearly the best show in the history of something. I just can\u2019t decide whether it\u2019s the best show in the history of the universe or the best show in the history of television. Honorable mentions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aetv.com\/dog_the_bounty_hunter\/\">Dog the Bounty Hunter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/24\/\">24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Books:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steven_Brust\">Steven Brust<\/a> is one of the greatest authors of our generation. If you like novels about assassins with sarcastic lizards, that is. Honorable mentions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrypratchettbooks.com\/\">Terry Pratchett<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csfriedman.com\/frames.htm\">C. S. Friedman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Music: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rich_Mullins\">Rich Mullins<\/a> rocks the free world. Or rocked the free world. Or whatever. He\u2019s dead but his music continues to inspire me. Honorable mentions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.u2.com\/\">U2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menwithouthats.com\/\">Men Without Hats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I mentioned some of my least-favorite entertainment, today is the opposite-entertainment I&nbsp;adore. Radio: Dennis Prager is the man. He\u2019s smart, reasonable, and thinks out loud in an interesting way. If your local radio doesn\u2019t carry him then it\u2019s your loss. Honorable mentions: Ira Flatow and Hugh Hewitt. Television: Mythbusters is clearly the best show \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/12\/entertainment-i-adore\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cEntertainment I&nbsp;Adore\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-716","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-by","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}