{"id":1111,"date":"2007-11-29T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T19:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2007-11-29T14:52:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T19:52:01","slug":"laugh-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2007\/11\/29\/laugh-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"Laugh riot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I debated posting this, because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aprille.org\/\">a blogger pal<\/a> does such a better job covering this show, but Leah and I just about wet our pants last night watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dlisted.com\/node\/18964\">Project Runway<\/a>.  It&#8217;s the same kind of laughter you get from watching merry mishaps in which someone ends up rolling down a steep embankment in a shopping cart, eventually splashing into a lake.  Nobody&#8217;s really hurt at all, other than in the pride dept., but it&#8217;s a hoot to watch the events unfold.<\/p>\n<p>We don&#8217;t normally watch this show, but these early-season episodes are fun, because you can really enjoy some frickin&#8217; terrible outfits.  Pretty soon, the pretenders will be gone, and it&#8217;ll get all serious and end up looking like any other reality show full of backstabbing contestants (in fact, it looks like that&#8217;s going to start in earnest next week, if the previews are accurate at all).<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh, the poor models who had to don this stuff last night.  I&#8217;m not used to feeling bad for people who make a living by walking and having their picture taken, but I had an honest-to-God pang of sympathy for the guy with the badly-tailored shirt and the mammoth tie.  Why did he have to die for his designer&#8217;s sins?  I blame Tiki Barber&#8217;s wife (at first I thought she was Kimora Simmons, which would&#8217;ve made more sense, at least to me).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I debated posting this, because a blogger pal does such a better job covering this show, but Leah and I just about wet our pants last night watching Project Runway. It&#8217;s the same kind of laughter you get from watching merry mishaps in which someone ends up rolling down a steep embankment in a shopping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-tv","tag-project-runway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-hV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}