{"id":1703,"date":"2011-07-06T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2011-07-06T20:30:25","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T00:30:25","slug":"cbs-networks-big-brother-social-torture-for-fun-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/cbs-networks-big-brother-social-torture-for-fun-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS&#8217;s Big Brother &#8211; Social Torture For Fun &#038; Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big Brother premiers\u00a0on Thursday, July 7th at 9pm.\u00a0 Goody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trapping\u00a0a\u00a0group of people who have\u00a0opposite personalities and lifestyles \u00a0into a house with no entertainment but each other? That's my kind of fun - as long as I'm\u00a0watching and not playing.\u00a0 It's even more fun these days because the current generation is used to being so connected electronically.\u00a0 Think about it - no TV, no Computer, no Cell Phone, no iPad or Kindle.\u00a0 They can't Tweet or Facebook.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The trauma --<\/p>\n<p>I love watching the contestants\u00a0playing mind games on each other for fun and profit. And it's always interesting to try to predict who'll be the new couple doing the down and dirty.\u00a0 There's always at least one - and sometimes two.\u00a0 I'd be damned suspicious of a man who\u00a0wanted to do the bedsheet boogie when the whole country is watching.\u00a0 If he'll do that, I predict nude photos will be plastered all over cyberspace before y'all have been back in the real world for a month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year they're bringing back past duos.\u00a0 Now that's gotta be fun.\u00a0 Will they still be together when the season starts? How about when it ends?\u00a0 Will any of them be exes?\u00a0 Of course, it won't all be couples but I'll bet they'll be my favorite.\u00a0 It's a romance author's dream entertainment - Forced love or forced hate - it's bound to be fun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I'm looking forward to seeing the cast!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, I'll be curled up on the couch with the remote waiting for 9 pm and singing - \"Let's do the mind warp again....\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Brother premiers\u00a0on Thursday, July 7th at 9pm.\u00a0 Goody.\u00a0 Trapping\u00a0a\u00a0group of people who have\u00a0opposite personalities and lifestyles \u00a0into a house with no entertainment but each other? That's my kind of fun - as long as I'm\u00a0watching and not playing.\u00a0 It's even more fun these days because the current generation is used to being so connected <a href=\"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/cbs-networks-big-brother-social-torture-for-fun-profit\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"CBS&#8217;s Big Brother &#8211; Social Torture For Fun &#038; Profit\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1705,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}