{"id":665,"date":"2008-06-17T17:51:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T21:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=665"},"modified":"2008-06-16T13:58:43","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T17:58:43","slug":"how-did-that-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"How did THAT happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt about it: New York local TV news just plain sucks.  The production is ridiculous, the content is lacking, the motivation is all about scaring people into watching the upcoming story and &#8220;staying tuned&#8230;&#8221; and then there&#8217;s gems like this one.<\/p>\n<p>(Note: the zingers start up around 55 seconds into the clip, but if you&#8217;re really interested in the dramatic life of New York slumlords and tenants, by all means, watch the whole thing&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"464\" height=\"392\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/embed.break.com\/NDY3NzM0\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/embed.break.com\/NDY3NzM0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"464\" height=\"392\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t quite the bombshell that Sue Simmons dropped just a couple weeks back, but it&#8217;s still damned entertaining watching two old salts verbally duke it out on live TV. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt about it: New York local TV news just plain sucks. The production is ridiculous, the content is lacking, the motivation is all about scaring people into watching the upcoming story and &#8220;staying tuned&#8230;&#8221; and then there&#8217;s gems like this one. (Note: the zingers start up around 55 seconds into the clip, but if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,53,55,56,54],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff","tag-live","tag-news","tag-fight","tag-outtakes","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}