{"id":2171,"date":"2007-11-01T23:59:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T06:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2007-11-02T00:03:26","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T07:03:26","slug":"its-faux-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2171","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s faux reality!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the return of the guilty indulgence.  After all, it&#8217;s the day after Halloween.  And this year, I didn&#8217;t do anything&#8230;too related to the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The Hills.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestweekever.tv\/2007\/10\/25\/reality-victims-unit-meet-gavin-my-friend-who-went-on-a-date-with-lc-from-the-hills\">not &#8220;real&#8221;<\/a>.  As in, some plot lines are contrived.  Sure it&#8217;s what they said, but who told them to say it?<\/p>\n<p>Quite often watching these shows, I start to believe I am being watched by cameras.  A slight awareness.  We probably all would behave differently if there was a large audience who watched us, judged us&#8230;gossiped about us.  And we learn to be&#8230;like the reality people who the audience forgets.<\/p>\n<p>The only celebrities I ever ran into in the Bay Area on the street were former cast members of Real World.  Those who attended Berkeley the same years as I did.  Oh and William Hung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the return of the guilty indulgence. After all, it&#8217;s the day after Halloween. And this year, I didn&#8217;t do anything&#8230;too related to the holiday. The Hills. It turns out not &#8220;real&#8221;. As in, some plot lines are contrived. Sure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2171\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}