{"id":1827,"date":"2005-10-25T10:27:56","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T14:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/peer_pressure\/"},"modified":"2005-10-25T10:27:56","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T14:27:56","slug":"peer_pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/10\/peer_pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Peer Pressure&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the explanation  <em>The Daily Show&#8217;s<\/em> Ed Helms offered for why TV news people stand out in the middle of a hurricane during their coverage.  At any rate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/nbc\/wilma_1_al_roker_0_27425.asp\">this Al Roker episode<\/a> illustrates how stupid the whole thing has become.<br \/>\nPerhaps it&#8217;s just me, but I don&#8217;t need a person standing out in the open to tell it&#8217;s windy and rainy.  Simple video footage showing something flapping in the wind will suffice.  Apparently if one of the cool kids does it, they all have to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/10\/peer_pressure\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to &#8220;Peer Pressure&#8221;\"><p>That&#8217;s the explanation The Daily Show&#8217;s Ed Helms offered for why TV news people stand out in the middle of a hurricane during their coverage. At any rate, this Al Roker episode illustrates how stupid the whole thing has become. Perhaps it&#8217;s just me, but I don&#8217;t need a person standing out in the open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}