{"id":1203,"date":"2004-07-17T17:20:15","date_gmt":"2004-07-17T21:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/17\/amazing-2\/"},"modified":"2009-08-23T10:03:41","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T15:03:41","slug":"amazing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/17\/amazing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>I briefly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/23\/busy-busy-busy\/\" target=\"NewWindow\">referenced<\/a> the show last year when I mentioned attending TARCon, but I just wanted to point out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\/primetime\/amazing_race5\/\" target=\"NewWindow\">The Amazing Race<\/a> is quite possibly the best show on TV.  The new season started two weeks ago, and yet again, I&#8217;m completely hooked.  And it&#8217;s made even better by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frolicanddetour.com\" target=\"NewWindow\">Miss Alli&#8217;s<\/a> amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.televisionwithoutpity.com\/show.cgi?show=76\" target=\"NewWindow\">recaps<\/a> over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.televisionwithoutpity.com\" target=\"NewWindow\">Television Without Pity<\/a>.  I just wanted to make sure that anyone who stops by here checks it out early enough into the season to get hooked.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>And the best parts?<\/li>\n<li>Alison, the reality show famewhore?  got booted the second week.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s the only show where you can actively root against the team with the little person.  Not necessarily because of the little person, but because of her incredibly whiny, annoying partner.<\/li>\n<li>Seeing people who look like your mom going down a zipline is just darn funny.<\/li>\n<li>and Phil.  &#8217;nuff said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh yeah, and it won the Emmy last year.  Watch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I briefly referenced the show last year when I mentioned attending TARCon, but I just wanted to point out that The Amazing Race is quite possibly the best show on TV. The new season started two weeks ago, and yet again, I&#8217;m completely hooked. And it&#8217;s made even better by Miss Alli&#8217;s amazing recaps over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-television"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-jp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}