{"id":183274,"date":"2015-01-09T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/09\/your-good-news-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2015-01-09T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T01:28:00","slug":"your-good-news-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/09\/your-good-news-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Good News of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/73a3M.png\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/73a3M.png\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>A new President has been selected by The Discovery Channel, and he has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/new-discovery-channel-chief-promises-no-more-made--213623?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=ShareTools&amp;utm_campaign=default\">announced that the channel will no longer be doing shows about fake sh%$<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">New Discovery Channel chief Rich Ross (no relation to Rick) has vowed to  stop airing pseudoscientific bullshit on what is ostensibly an  educational channel. Ross <a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2015\/01\/discovery-channel-new-chief-rich-ross-fake-documentaries-tca-1201344279\/\">made this promise at the Television Critic\u2019s Association press tour earlier today<\/a>,  telling the skeptical crowd, \u201cI don\u2019t think [fake documentaries are]  right for Discovery Channel, and think it\u2019s something that has run its  course.\u201d&nbsp; <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, no more mermaids, no more men eaten by anacondas, no more assertions that long extinct giant sharks are still swimming out there,&nbsp; and (of course) Amish gangstas.<\/p>\n<p>They just unjumped the C. megaladon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new President has been selected by The Discovery Channel, and he has announced that the channel will no longer be doing shows about fake sh%$: New Discovery Channel chief Rich Ross (no relation to Rick) has vowed to stop airing pseudoscientific bullshit on what is ostensibly an educational channel. Ross made this promise at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1240,1064,1085],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-integrity","category-media","category-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}