{"id":1000730,"date":"2007-07-09T21:11:31","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T02:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/pop-culture\/2007\/07\/09\/espn-chokes\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T21:11:31","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T02:11:31","slug":"espn-chokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/pop-culture\/tv\/2007\/07\/09\/espn-chokes\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Chokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I almost never watch ESPN, but tonight they&#8217;re venturing into new territory with a miniseries entitled the Bronx is Burning. They&#8217;ve been hyping it heavily, and I&#8217;m actually interested in New York in the 70s, so I was all geared up to watch it. Then I turn it on at the advertised time of 10:00 P.M. and what do I see? The National Home Run Derby.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea what this is, nor do I much care. If it were an actual baseball game I could almost see the point; but some silly, made-up event that does little but fill dead air? For this they preempted their new flagship show?<\/p>\n<p>Screw it. If the miniseries is any good, I&#8217;ll watch it on DVD in a few months, but I probably won&#8217;t bother with ESPN again for another ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I almost never watch ESPN, but tonight they&#8217;re venturing into new territory with a miniseries entitled the Bronx is Burning. They&#8217;ve been hyping it heavily, and I&#8217;m actually interested in New York in the 70s, so I was all geared up to watch it. Then I turn it on at the advertised time of 10:00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}