{"id":409,"date":"2004-01-02T00:07:52","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T05:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/another_step\/"},"modified":"2004-01-02T00:07:52","modified_gmt":"2004-01-02T05:07:52","slug":"another_step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/another_step\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reality T.V., or in this case a &#8220;hybrid of a scripted and reality&#8221; T.V., <a href=\"http:\/\/fox.com\/bigfat\/\">continues its downward march<\/a> toward glorified Jerry Springer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After months of ordinary TV weddings, the real fun is just beginning when FOX rings the wedding bells to sound off the ultimate practical joke on MY BIG FAT OBNOXIOUS FIANC\ufffd. In this unscripted series, a beautiful \ufffdbride-to-be\ufffd introduces the most horrific \ufffdfianc\ufffd to her family and friends when she announces her shocking and surprising wedding plans to them in the series premiere Monday, January 19, 2004 following the premiere of American Idol on FOX.<br \/>\nOver six episodes, Steve, the big fat obnoxious \ufffdPrince-not-so-Charming\ufffd and his obnoxious \ufffdfamily\ufffd will test the limits of his recently engaged girlfriend\ufffds family and friends through shocking behavior. Our \ufffdbride,\ufffd Randi, a 23-year-old first grade teacher from Scottsdale, Ariz., must make it all the way through the wedding ceremony and final \ufffdI do\ufffds\ufffd in order to win a million dollars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Big Fat Blog has a form which you can use to complain to Fox about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigfatblog.com\/campaigns\/?issue_id=6\">negative fat stereotyping<\/a>.<br \/>\nIf you want to contact Fox to complain about the stupidity of this show, feel free to use the following letter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Fox,<br \/>\nYour scheduled &#8220;reality&#8221; series, &#8220;My Big Fat Obnoxious Fianc\ufffd,&#8221; looks even stupider than the last show you came up with.<br \/>\nPlease stop.<br \/>\nSincerely,<br \/>\nT.V. Viewer<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> FOX Broadcasting Co.<br \/>\nP.O. Box 900<br \/>\nBeverly Hills, CA 90213<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/01\/another_step\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Another Step\"><p>Reality T.V., or in this case a &#8220;hybrid of a scripted and reality&#8221; T.V., continues its downward march toward glorified Jerry Springer: After months of ordinary TV weddings, the real fun is just beginning when FOX rings the wedding bells to sound off the ultimate practical joke on MY BIG FAT OBNOXIOUS FIANC\ufffd. In this [&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-409","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\/409","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=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}