{"id":65,"date":"2007-01-16T07:59:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T13:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2007-01-16T07:59:37","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T13:59:37","slug":"i-dont-watch-too-much-television-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t watch too much television, but &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve accidentally discovered another television show I like: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g4tv.com\/ninjawarrior\/index.html\">Ninja Warrior<\/a>. It&#8217;s normally on at midnight on Tuesdays, but a block of shows was broadcast Sunday afternoon after the CES coverage ended.<\/p>\n<p>It kind of reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Gladiators\">American Gladiators<\/a>, but there are no opponents to get past; it&#8217;s all a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ninja_Warrior\">test of physical capability<\/a>. I <em>know<\/em> I&#8217;d get nowhere if I tried it &#8211; with 100 competitors per year, fewer than 200 have made it past the first stage in 17 years, and I don&#8217;t think I have any delusions about my own physical talents, but I&#8217;d <em>love<\/em> to try the course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve accidentally discovered another television show I like: Ninja Warrior. It&#8217;s normally on at midnight on Tuesdays, but a block of shows was broadcast Sunday afternoon after the CES coverage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}