{"id":544,"date":"2010-04-27T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2010-04-27T09:38:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T13:38:09","slug":"such-and-such-and-so-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/such-and-such-and-so-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Such and Such and So On."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not that I mind pop culture.\u00a0 I buy into certain elements that entertain me and certain elements that amuse me.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be the first one say, pop culture has it&#8217;s place.\u00a0 But enough already.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t take anymore media manipulation for the sake of ratings-and I miss old news.\u00a0 The kind that told you news of the world.\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 It sounds hypocritical coming from someone who has been in entertainment for so many years to bark about media manipulation- but this was always the side of entertainment I never liked.\u00a0 And most media manipulation is written for a 6th grade reading level these days- just a soap operas always have been.\u00a0 How is that for a parallel?<\/p>\n<p>I want to know my world is evolving and that people are making a difference and , well, hope still thrives.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to hear sordid sports stories, ad nauseum and\u00a0 learn of\u00a0one more sex offender out of jail and doing what comes naturally.\u00a0 Should have kept him in jail. Period.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pop culture thrives and is sustained by the age groups I work with on a daily basis.\u00a0 Middle to high school students.\u00a0 God forbid any nugget of information get past them.\u00a0 They are my radar for what is on the pop culture grid.\u00a0 Or more terrifying-what is not.\u00a0 Forget 15 minutes of fame&#8230;&#8230;this age group can drop a fad in a nanosecond-and pick up another just as quick.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=217894238264870\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/such-and-such-and-so-on\/\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"al2fb_send_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=217894238264870\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:send ref=\"AL2FB\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/such-and-such-and-so-on\/\"><\/fb:send><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not that I mind pop culture.\u00a0 I buy into certain elements that entertain me and certain elements that amuse me.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be the first one say, pop culture has it&#8217;s place.\u00a0 But enough already. I can&#8217;t take anymore media manipulation for the sake of ratings-and I miss old news.\u00a0 The kind that told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriacrist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}