{"id":185522,"date":"2014-10-24T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/10\/24\/there-may-be-hope-for-us-as-a-civilization\/"},"modified":"2014-10-24T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T23:49:00","slug":"there-may-be-hope-for-us-as-a-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/10\/24\/there-may-be-hope-for-us-as-a-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"There May be Hope for Us as a Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TLC has <a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/10\/24\/us-television-honeybooboo-idINKCN0ID25P20141024\">canceled <i>Here Comes Honey Boo Boo<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cable television network TLC on Friday said it has canceled &#8220;Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,&#8221; the popular cable reality series, about a rural Georgia family and their precocious beauty pageant daughter.<\/p>\n<p>TLC, owned by Discovery Communications Inc, did not explain why it was canceling the show but said in a statement that &#8220;supporting the health and welfare of these remarkable children is our only priority. TLC is faithfully committed to the children&#8217;s ongoing comfort and well-being.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully this is the first of many cancellations or reality TV.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I really hope that Alana &#8220;Honey Boo Boo&#8221; Thompson doesn&#8217;t end up too screwed up as an adult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLC has canceled Here Comes Honey Boo Boo: Cable television network TLC on Friday said it has canceled &#8220;Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,&#8221; the popular cable reality series, about a rural Georgia family and their precocious beauty pageant daughter. TLC, owned by Discovery Communications Inc, did not explain why it was canceling the show but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1065,1064,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-media","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185522"}],"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=185522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}