{"id":102,"date":"2005-03-25T21:03:25","date_gmt":"2005-03-26T05:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=102"},"modified":"2008-06-22T11:38:45","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T18:38:45","slug":"yee-ikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Yee-IKES!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret and I were just in the middle of watching a rerun of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Law_&#038;_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Law &#038; Order: Special Victims Unit<\/a> (yes, yes, I know, not only have we no lives, we also have no taste). The show hit a commercial, and as is our wont, we began channel-surfing for something else to occupy our attention and keep us from meaningful conversation with each other. We happened on a channel showing a program about a small town in Utah where polygamy is pretty much the standard for the community. We watched a few minutes before returning to SVU.<\/p>\n<p>During the next break, we flipped back to the polygamy show. It was at that point that I realized that this program was being aired on&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Country Music Television<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone else find that just a little, um, disturbing? Without passing judgement on the act of polygamy itself (after all, I&#8217;m one of those whack-jobs that want to make it legal for a man to marry a turtle), is marital deviancy in the back country really the kind of topic with which CMT wants their viewer demographic associated?<\/p>\n<p>To my mind, there seems only a step or two between this and producing an hour-long program about marrying your first cousin. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret and I were just in the middle of watching a rerun of Law &#038; Order: Special Victims Unit (yes, yes, I know, not only have we no lives, we also have no taste). The show hit a commercial, and as is our wont, we began channel-surfing for something else to occupy our attention and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}