{"id":2729,"date":"2007-09-21T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2007-09-21T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T22:20:00","slug":"2729","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2729","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">On over-long award shows like the Emmys, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2007_09_21.html#014057\">Mark Evanier writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What do you want them to cut? The entertainment interludes? That would be like PBS cancelling the show you want to watch but retaining the pledge breaks&#8230;or something like that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Has he <i>seen<\/i> PBS recently?<\/p>\n<p>Still, he&#8217;s got a point. I don&#8217;t usually watch the Emmys, but I saw more of this Oscar ceremony than I expected to. And, with rare exception, it was hard to point at any one specific thing they should have cut. Short of scrapping the show altogether &#8212; which isn&#8217;t going to happen &#8212; the best option seems to be fast-forwarding through the boring parts like Evanier and just watching the little bits you want.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On over-long award shows like the Emmys, Mark Evanier writes: What do you want them to cut? The entertainment interludes? That would be like PBS cancelling the show you want to watch but retaining the pledge breaks&#8230;or something like that. Has he seen PBS recently? Still, he&#8217;s got a point. I don&#8217;t usually watch the &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2729\">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-2729","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\/2729"}],"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=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}