{"id":668,"date":"2008-01-03T18:50:46","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T02:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2008\/01\/03\/lock-up-best-tv-series-ever\/"},"modified":"2008-01-03T18:50:46","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T02:50:46","slug":"lock-up-best-tv-series-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/lock-up-best-tv-series-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Lock Up: Best TV Series Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"lock-up.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/lock-up.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image669\" height=\"85\" alt=\"lock-up.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/lock-up.jpg?fit=640%2C85\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MSNBC has been delighting me with its seemingly endless documentary series about prison life, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3080749\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lock Up<\/a>. Last night, I watched the episode about two crazy guys who had each killed a parent and then eaten the parent&#8217;s brain. I wasn&#8217;t really offended; I guess if one of my kids killed me, I&#8217;d like them to at least eat my brain!<\/p>\n<p>The night before, I met Bobby Gilbert, a guy who&#8217;s spent 19 years in solitary confinement and wants to be moved to a prison closer to his Mama. He throws a fit when he doesn&#8217;t get his transfer. Then he goes to anger management classes and gets a haircut from a prison buddy who is older and wiser and less insane.<\/p>\n<p>Another&nbsp;\u00a0inmate, Alex Bennett, has an amazing gray mullet, and scares the shit out of the series producer, a fat young white guy. Alex seems to relish being a hardened convict, and he shows us his favorite place to stand out in the yard.<\/p>\n<p>God, I love this series. How can anyone not love it? The tattoos, the personality disorders, the bad grammar, it&#8217;s a dream come true for the armchair sociologist. If you like the idea of hearing &#8216;Death Row&#8217; pronounced to rhyme with Jethro, this is must-see television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC has been delighting me with its seemingly endless documentary series about prison life, called Lock Up. Last night, I watched the episode about two crazy guys who had each killed a parent and then eaten the parent&#8217;s brain. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/lock-up-best-tv-series-ever\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,9,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-aM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}