{"id":2618,"date":"2007-07-12T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2618"},"modified":"2007-07-12T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T01:00:00","slug":"2618","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2618","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Via fellow capper Xigeous, I learn of the upcoming CBS reality show, <a href=\"http:\/\/tv.yahoo.com\/kid-nation\/show\/41733\/castcrew;_ylt=AoHedgbbNRLXMShrvN9kfBM8poh4\">Kid Nation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Forty plucky kids ranging in age from 8 to 15 spend 40 days without parents or Playstations in Bonanza City, M.M., a ghost town where they try to build a community that works, cooking their own meals, hauling their own water, clearning their own outhouses and even running businesses such as the root beer-dispensing saloon. They also elect four peer leaders who will pass laws and set bedtimes. No one is &#8220;voted out&#8221; at the town meeting that closes each episode, but any kids who have had enough can simply raise their hands and leave. How many will stick it out?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s like <i>Lord of the Flies<\/i> meets <i>Deadwood<\/i>!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via fellow capper Xigeous, I learn of the upcoming CBS reality show, Kid Nation: Forty plucky kids ranging in age from 8 to 15 spend 40 days without parents or Playstations in Bonanza City, M.M., a ghost town where they try to build a community that works, cooking their own meals, hauling their own water, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2618\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}