{"id":655,"date":"2005-02-23T22:33:50","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T03:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/02\/23\/please-leave-it-to-the-professionals\/"},"modified":"2005-02-23T22:33:50","modified_gmt":"2005-02-24T03:33:50","slug":"please-leave-it-to-the-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/655","title":{"rendered":"Please leave it to the professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I burned out on &#8220;reality TV&#8221; back when it was invented by <a href=\"http:\/\/candidcamera.com\/cc2\/cc2e.html\">Allen Funt<\/a>, who hid a camera and caught people &#8220;in the act of being themselves.&#8221; I guess there was a certain authenticity to the captured behaviors, but weren&#8217;t the scenarios contrived to produce humor in the first place? Dana observed tonight that the pervasive garbage produced today to create an illusion of authenticity isn&#8217;t &#8220;reality&#8221; at all, but rather people in the vicinity of not-so-hidden cameras &#8220;trying to act the way they think they should act, when they can&#8217;t act.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I burned out on &#8220;reality TV&#8221; back when it was invented by Allen Funt, who hid a camera and caught people &#8220;in the act of being themselves.&#8221; I guess there was a certain authenticity to the captured behaviors, but weren&#8217;t the scenarios contrived to produce humor in the first place? Dana observed tonight that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}