{"id":391,"date":"2007-05-29T19:48:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T00:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.99:8888\/blog\/2007\/05\/29\/1180486095505.html"},"modified":"2007-05-29T19:48:15","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T00:48:15","slug":"blogentry-on-the-lot-i-lasted-about-30-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"[BlogEntry] On The Lot : I lasted about 30 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn&#039;t even have tried this show if not for the fact that nothing else was on.  This is the one that&#039;s about a bunch of amateur film makers (wasn&#039;t there something called Project Greenlight or something that was the exact same thing)?<\/p>\n<p\/>Let me save you the trouble.  It is an exact, and I&#039;m talking word for word, clone of American Idol.  Right down to the host saying things like &#034;Random guy, your film was Replicate Me.  The judges said this good thing, that, and the other thing.  But did America agree?  America voted, and&#8230;.awkward pause&#8230;.way too long pause&#8230;..they replicated what the judges said, you are safe.  We&#039;ll see you next week.&#034;<\/p>\n<p\/>I&#039;m not joking.  That is a transcription.  The horribly long pauses for no reason, the recap of what the judges said, the punny reference to something personalized about each contestant.  At one point she even did the &#034;You&#039;ll find out&#8230;.after the break&#034; thing.<\/p>\n<p\/>With something like 15 contestants to go through, it was just too painful to handle.  I gave up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wouldn&#039;t even have tried this show if not for the fact that nothing else was on. This is the one that&#039;s about a bunch of amateur film makers (wasn&#039;t there something called Project Greenlight or something that was the exact same thing)? Let me save you the trouble. It is an exact, and I&#039;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.morinfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}