{"id":15844,"date":"2016-09-17T15:42:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T22:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15844"},"modified":"2016-09-17T15:42:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T22:42:50","slug":"this-is-just-gratuitous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/09\/17\/this-is-just-gratuitous\/","title":{"rendered":"this is just gratuitous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A<a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/15\/donald-trump-was-right-to-float-rolling#comment\"> gratuitous linking to an episode of Get A Life<\/a>, which somehow or other buffers this libertarian argument against food inspectors.<\/p>\n<p><em>As with most things, Chris Elliott&#8217;s path-breaking early &#8217;90s Fox sitcom, Get A Life! got there decades ago, in an episode in which becomes a food inspector and quickly goes on the take<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 The show demonstrates a definite political viewpoint.\u00c2\u00a0 Corruption! Five bucks!\u00c2\u00a0 An investigator hiding in the shadows named Jim Gorman who, if you need him, signal him by standing on your lawn with a small dog strapped to his head singing Mr. Bo Jingles in a high voice&#8230; which, from a libertarian point of view would indeed be a sign of big gummint shenanigans.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a reach, that&#8217;s all I&#8217;m saying.<\/p>\n<p>Dip into the comments section for some arguable comments.<\/p>\n<p><em>What amazes me is that there was even a single Network Exec who thought the laugh track did anything except assassinate that show. You know how much better that is without the insipid canned laughter?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dunno.\u00c2\u00a0 The laugh-track is an overdone concoction, spot-lighting the artificiality of the show&#8217;s universe, keeping a viewer within the sitcom conventions.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if it works better without this laugh-track &#8212; it&#8217;s just that it has a premise in being in this show.\u00c2\u00a0 I know that option is there on dvd, but apparently this mostly gets you a chance to hear producers shouting directions and laughing just off the set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gratuitous linking to an episode of Get A Life, which somehow or other buffers this libertarian argument against food inspectors. As with most things, Chris Elliott&#8217;s path-breaking early &#8217;90s Fox sitcom, Get A Life! got there decades ago, in an episode in which becomes a food inspector and quickly goes on the take. Yes.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15845,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844\/revisions\/15845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}