{"id":1113,"date":"2003-08-11T18:21:38","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T03:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2013-11-11T20:56:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T01:56:08","slug":"20030811-0-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/2003\/08\/20030811-0-5\/","title":{"rendered":"TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching TV last weekend, and I ran across a show on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiketv.com\">the new TNN<\/a> called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiketv.com\/shows\/meec\/\">Most Extreme Elimination Challenge<\/a>.  Basically, it&#8217;s an old Japanese game show where contestants compete for prizes by doing silly, and sometimes dangerous stunts.  Added to this is voice-over of American comics doing fake translation.  You end up with something pretty humorous, if you&#8217;ve got a taste for slapstic comedy.  Normally I don&#8217;t, but maybe I was just in the right mood;  the show had me laughing out loud.<\/p>\n<p>Following this show was a made-up sport called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slamball.net\/\">Slamball<\/a>&#8220;.  Slamball is like basketball, except that there are trampolines embedded in the court, four on each side, near the net.  And there&#8217;s plexiglass surrounding the court, kinda like hockey.  They portray it like it&#8217;s a real sport that&#8217;s gonna catch on.  And who knows, it might.  I found it significantly more entertaining to watch than real basketball, but maybe that&#8217;s just because of the novelty.  I&#8217;ve never been a big sports fan of any kind, really.  <\/p>\n<p>Suzette got me to watch the Tour de France this year, and occasionally I follow the New England Patriots, and I&#8217;ve gotten interested in some sailing races.  Le Race and the America&#8217;s Cup.  I&#8217;m not a sports fan, but I might have to start watching Slamball.  Trampolines are fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching TV last weekend, and I ran across a show on the new TNN called Most Extreme Elimination Challenge. Basically, it&#8217;s an old Japanese game show where contestants compete for prizes by doing silly, and sometimes dangerous stunts. Added to this is voice-over of American comics doing fake translation. You end up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risacher.org\/jfdi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}