{"id":11796,"date":"2010-07-06T07:47:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T12:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11796"},"modified":"2010-07-06T07:47:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T12:47:37","slug":"operation-roido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11796","title":{"rendered":"Operation Roido"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started writing this piece here…<\/p>\n

I’m not gonna say Operation Repo<\/a> <\/em>is “the most addictive show on TV”, as TruTv’s tagline would have us believe.<\/p>\n

But it’s mildly diverting on those Monday evenings when I don’t have more pressing or enjoyable business to see to.<\/p>\n

I kinda like the characters; Lou Pizarro seems like a stand-up kinda guy, and the supernaturally laid-back Froy Tercero seems like the kind of fella I could pop a top with.<\/p>\n

Sonia Pizarro, of course, is a gruff freak show, and Lynda Pizarro strikes me as the kind of budding sadist who will be working as a county bill collector at some point or another.<\/p>\n

But I confess that my favorite episodes are the ones where rampaging roid-raging juice-monkey Matt gets maced, tazed or beaten to a pulp.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…until I read that the “reality” show is a scripted “recreation”.<\/p>\n

I’m shocked. \u00a0Shocked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I started writing this piece here… I’m not gonna say Operation Repo is “the most addictive show on TV”, as TruTv’s tagline would have us believe. But it’s mildly diverting on those Monday evenings when I don’t have more pressing or enjoyable business to see to. I kinda like the characters; Lou Pizarro seems like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11797,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11796\/revisions\/11797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}