{"id":787,"date":"2008-03-29T23:44:32","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T07:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/2008\/03\/29\/reality-tv-causes-cancer\/"},"modified":"2008-03-29T23:44:32","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T07:44:32","slug":"reality-tv-causes-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/reality-tv-causes-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality TV Causes Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/rocky.jpg\" title=\"rocky.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/rocky.thumbnail.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"rocky.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It hasn&#8217;t been proven yet, but it feels like cancer. Tonight I watched a show called &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vh1.com\/shows\/dyn\/i_know_my_kids_a_star\/series.jhtml\">I Know My Kid&#8217;s a Star<\/a>&#8221; on VH1, and while I admit I&#8217;m a novice at Reality TV, surely this is one of the most egregious yet.<\/p>\n<p>A bunch of kids and their horrible mothers have to live together in a house and compete for a chance to be humiliated by Danny Bonaduce and some mean woman named Marki. With an i.<\/p>\n<p>The kids are tormented by their crazy mothers, who should all be shot. A better name for this show would be &#8220;Who Do You Want To Kill?&#8221; My husband and I agreed that the most kill-worthy was Rocky, a coke-whore type who wears a cowboy hat and looks like she&#8217;d let you molest her daughter for a hit of blow. Maybe this woman was carefully selected to freak out the jaded viewers, who knows. A close second was a crazy blonde whose name I&#8217;ve already forgotten, who badgers her kid into tears and clearly feels entitled to do whatever is necessary to break the kid&#8217;s will.<\/p>\n<p>Why has the world come to this? Are we all on too much medication, or not enough?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;\u00a0 It hasn&#8217;t been proven yet, but it feels like cancer. Tonight I watched a show called &#8220;I Know My Kid&#8217;s a Star&#8221; on VH1, and while I admit I&#8217;m a novice at Reality TV, surely this is one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/reality-tv-causes-cancer\/\">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":[5,7],"tags":[114,113,112],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-cH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787"}],"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=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}