{"id":161,"date":"2003-08-28T20:21:41","date_gmt":"2003-08-29T03:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/blind_date_tv\/"},"modified":"2003-08-28T20:21:41","modified_gmt":"2003-08-29T03:21:41","slug":"blind_date_tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/blind_date_tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Date TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have a cable channel here in the US which used to be known as The Nashville Network (TNN).  It has recently been taken over by aliens and is known now as &#8220;Spike.&#8221;  It&#8217;s being touted as the first network for men.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI love the Star Trek: Next Generation reruns, and I can live with an occasional James Bond movie, but there&#8217;s a new show called &#8220;Blind Date&#8221; that&#8217;s really irritating me.<br \/>\nTonight at seven in the evening, they ran an ad for that program that qualified for one of the porn channels.  It showed men and women in a hot tub in a grotto&#8230;doing what most couples do in private.  And, if the title of the show is correct, these people had just met.<br \/>\nDoes that mean that they hired prostitutes to play the female leads, or have the morals of the twenties generation deteriorated so much that they don&#8217;t think twice about being filmed while they have sex with strangers?  Is the draw the possibility that they may be &#8220;discovered,&#8221; and that it will lead to a TV  contract?<br \/>\nI just don&#8217;t understand why a woman would consider participating in one of these shows.  I suppose I can see why a man might watch the program once, or perhaps twice.  But I can&#8217;t understand why he would be a repeat viewer.<br \/>\nI should have expected sleaze like this from a station that touts &#8220;Striperella&#8221; and &#8220;Gary the Rat.&#8221;  I&#8217;m really glad that the men in this house don&#8217;t tune in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a cable channel here in the US which used to be known as The Nashville Network (TNN). It has recently been taken over by aliens and is known now as &#8220;Spike.&#8221; It&#8217;s being touted as the first network &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/blind_date_tv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}