{"id":307,"date":"2005-03-24T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2005-03-24T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-24T22:29:00","slug":"307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/307\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>[Sorry, I don&#8217;t do sloppy seconds]<\/b><br \/>So the American version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/comedy\/theoffice\/\">The Office<\/a> premiers tonight at 8:30 central on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc\/The_Office\/\">NBC<\/a> and I&#8217;ve got Phil on assignment to watch it and give me a play-by-play when I get home. Oh, Tivo, why dost thou cost so much?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping for it to be a success in its own right, because I really don&#8217;t entertain any notions of it duplicating the utter brilliance of the British version. American comedy is presently too clunky for such awkward subtlety. Not that I don&#8217;t enjoy my share of clunky comedy. I love Steve Carell. He made a Daily Show appearance last night, I imagine to remind people of his existence so they&#8217;ll remember to watch the new show. I&#8217;m really afraid that the newfound fear of FCC fines might cause NBC to leech out all the funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Sorry, I don&#8217;t do sloppy seconds]So the American version of The Office premiers tonight at 8:30 central on NBC and I&#8217;ve got Phil on assignment to watch it and give me a play-by-play when I get home. Oh, Tivo, why dost thou cost so much? I&#8217;m hoping for it to be a success in its own right, because I really don&#8217;t entertain any notions of it duplicating the utter brilliance of the British version. American&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1jWWl-307","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}