{"id":200,"date":"2012-11-06T23:43:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T04:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/?p=200"},"modified":"2012-11-06T23:44:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T04:44:44","slug":"everything-is-1-yeah-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/2012\/11\/06\/everything-is-1-yeah-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything is #1! Yeah right."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am so sick of every network and channel constantly calling everything <em>The season\u2019s #1 show<\/em>, <em>Canada\u2019s favorite new show<\/em>, <em>The best show on television<\/em>, <em>The biggest hit on TV<\/em>, <em>The new #1 hit<\/em>, and so on. These claims are b.s. for at least two reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t tell me what is a good show or not! I\u2019ll decide for myself whether a show is any good and I hate being told by others that something is good, particularly when I already know it is not! I can\u2019t count the number of times I have seen a commercial for a show I hate being called #1. That is incredibly aggravating.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>How many #1\/favorite shows are there\u203d How can every show be #1 or the favorite? How can every new show be a hit? The claims they make are statistically and logically ridiculous and garbage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/tag\/ratings\/\" rel=\"tag\">Ratings<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/tag\/reviews\/\" rel=\"tag\">Reviews<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/tag\/television\/\" rel=\"tag\">Television<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so sick of every network and channel constantly calling everything The season\u2019s #1 show, Canada\u2019s favorite new show, The best show on television, The biggest hit on TV, The new #1 hit, and so on. These claims are b.s. for at least two reasons: Don\u2019t tell me what is a good show or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,63,4],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ratings","tag-reviews","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/rantinions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}