{"id":354,"date":"2006-05-04T12:15:21","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T20:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2006-05-04T12:15:21","modified_gmt":"2006-05-04T20:15:21","slug":"kids-reality-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2006\/05\/04\/kids-reality-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Reality Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting here in the hospital room with my son, I have to endure endless hours of kid-TV.  There are two cardinal values underlying all of these shows:  (1) things work out when we all work together; and (2) you can achieve your dreams if you only believe.  These values in moderate doses and in relation to other values have some merit.  However, as presented in these shows, they&#8217;re treacly-sweet.  What I&#8217;d like to see is a reality-based kids show.  Such a show would teach things like (1) not everyone is worthy of your trust; some people are downright rotten and should be avoided; and (2) you won&#8217;t achieve all your dreams; you have limits; get over it and learn to make the most of what you have.  Maybe then we&#8217;d have less disillusioned teenagers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting here in the hospital room with my son, I have to endure endless hours of kid-TV. There are two cardinal values underlying all of these shows: (1) things work out when we all work together; and (2) you can achieve your dreams if you only believe. These values in moderate doses and in relation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-film"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-5I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}