{"id":2057,"date":"2008-02-01T12:55:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T17:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2057"},"modified":"2008-02-01T12:55:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T17:55:44","slug":"there-are-times-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2057","title":{"rendered":"There Are Times&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;when you wonder if Scrappleface and Iowahawk are even legally satire anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Collins covered the &#8220;press&#8221; conference announcing the Super Bowl halftime entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let that sink in for a moment.<\/p>\n<p>Not a very promising premise.\u00a0 Right?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, it gets worse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This afternoon, Alicia Keyes and Jordan Sparks were announced as the pre-game entertainment, an event usually covered by the B-squad anyway, but still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Lynne Miller (Ironstar) &#8211; &#8220;First of all, I love you. I think you&#8217;re fantastic&#8230;.&#8221; It didn&#8217;t get better. She wanted to know what was in their iPods.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Jahn (Channel 3 News) &#8211; &#8220;First, you guys are so beautiful&#8230;&#8221; Why even bother with what her question was?<\/p>\n<p>Yetta Gibson (Fox Phoenix) &#8211; &#8220;How ya doin? Where are your seats? And are you forced to root for the Knicks?&#8221; The what? The Knicks? I looked her up on the Internet. She&#8217;s described as &#8220;an Emmy Award-winning journalist.&#8221; That should tell you how hard it is to win a local Emmy.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Petty, the halftime show, is up next. NFL Network analyst Terrel Davis says he&#8217;s never heard of Tom Petty. Ugh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Never thought Nick Coleman would look good in comparison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;when you wonder if Scrappleface and Iowahawk are even legally satire anymore. Bob Collins covered the &#8220;press&#8221; conference announcing the Super Bowl halftime entertainment. I&#8217;ll let that sink in for a moment. Not a very promising premise.\u00a0 Right? Oh, it gets worse: This afternoon, Alicia Keyes and Jordan Sparks were announced as the pre-game entertainment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}