{"id":2303,"date":"2002-11-21T08:37:12","date_gmt":"2002-11-21T15:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2002-11-21T08:37:12","modified_gmt":"2002-11-21T15:37:12","slug":"american-paperboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2002\/11\/21\/american-paperboy\/","title":{"rendered":"American Paperboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently UPN  is doing some sort of a show where a bunch of people <a href='http:\/\/www.azreporter.com\/entertainment\/television\/news\/upnsupermodel.html'>compete to become a Supermodel<\/a>. It called &#8220;The Supermodel Show,&#8221; presumably because their target audience would get confused if it was called anything more subtle.  This follows on the heels of <i>Making The Band<\/i> (where people competed to be in a rock group), <i>American Idol<\/i> (where people competed to become a pop star), and <i>The Bachelor<\/i> (where people competed to look like a moneygrubbing publicity whore on nationwide tv).<\/p>\n<p>In the future this is how all job interviews will work.  <i>The Wal*Mart Teller Show<\/i>.  <i>Making The Nike<\/i>.    You and 11 other teens will apply for a position at Hot Dog On A Stick and have to go through twelve weeks of televised elimination rounds.    Ultimately the American viewing public will get to decide if you spend your days serving $7.00 cups of lemonade to mall rats.<\/p>\n<p>Holy Smokes!  The Flash intro to the <a href='http:\/\/www.hotdogonastick.com\/intro.html'>Hot Dog On A Stick<\/a> website is longer than <i>The English Patient<\/i>!  (Although  somewhat more engrossing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently UPN is doing some sort of a show where a bunch of people compete to become a Supermodel. It called &#8220;The Supermodel Show,&#8221; presumably because their target audience would get confused if it was called anything more subtle. This follows on the heels of Making The Band (where people competed to be in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}