{"id":2044,"date":"2006-08-03T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-03T15:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/08\/mel_madness\/"},"modified":"2006-08-03T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2006-08-03T15:06:56","slug":"mel_madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/08\/mel_madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was enough irony in the Mel Gibson arrest story to last one or two days on TV news.  But we certainly didn&#8217;t need what&#8217;s shaping up to be a whole week of wall to wall coverage.  And that was true before I saw <em>Scarborough Country&#8217;s<\/em> little experiment last night of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/tvnewser\/msnbc\/msnbc_producer_gets_drunk_to_simulate_mel_gibsons_madness_41369.asp\">having a producer simulate Mel&#8217;s intoxication<\/a>.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve now entered hysteria territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/08\/mel_madness\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Mel Madness\"><p>There was enough irony in the Mel Gibson arrest story to last one or two days on TV news. But we certainly didn&#8217;t need what&#8217;s shaping up to be a whole week of wall to wall coverage. And that was true before I saw Scarborough Country&#8217;s little experiment last night of having a producer simulate [&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-2044","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\/2044","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=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}