{"id":32481,"date":"2017-04-30T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32481"},"modified":"2017-04-20T09:07:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:07:46","slug":"qotd-famous-for-being-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/04\/30\/qotd-famous-for-being-famous\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Famous for being famous"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Every country that has television, which is all of them, must have celebrities who are famous for almost nothing. The U.K. practically specializes in this. But the \u201calmost\u201d is important. Even the weird layer of U.K. celebrity that subsists on the old country\u2019s old-fashioned panel and reality shows normally tends to demand that a celeb have been a member of Parliament or received a surgically enhanced bosom. If possible, both.<\/p>\n<p>Colby Cosh, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/full-comment\/colby-cosh-on-the-ignominious-downfall-of-jared-from-subway\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;On the ignominious downfall of Jared from Subway&#8221;, <em>National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2015-08-20.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every country that has television, which is all of them, must have celebrities who are famous for almost nothing. The U.K. practically specializes in this. But the \u201calmost\u201d is important. Even the weird layer of U.K. celebrity that subsists on the old country\u2019s old-fashioned panel and reality shows normally tends to demand that a celeb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[4,28,41],"tags":[248,101],"class_list":["post-32481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-media","category-quotations","tag-realitytv","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8rT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32482,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32481\/revisions\/32482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}