{"id":436,"date":"2008-06-13T03:45:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T08:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=436"},"modified":"2008-06-13T03:45:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T08:45:26","slug":"say-it-aint-so-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/436","title":{"rendered":"Say it Ain&#039;t So, Joe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Er, <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nytimes.com\/gst\/fullpage.html?res=9A0DEFDD113BF934A15757C0A960948260\">Marlin.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As part of its case, &#8221;Cruel Camera&#8221; showed scenes from that much-beloved series &#8221;Wild Kingdom.&#8221; It was broadcast regularly on NBC from 1968 through &#8217;71, and then went into syndication, although new episodes were produced through 1978. How did &#8221;Wild Kingdom&#8221; rescue a bear, apparently stranded in a swamp? Someone pushed the bear overboard and scared him half to death first. How do you get an alligator to attack a water moccasin? Tie a string to the water moccasin&#8217;s tail; throw him out and reel him in. Wait long enough, and the alligator will attack the water moccasin out of sheer boredom or exasperation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, man, I did not need to know this.  But now that I do, I&#8217;m not keeping it to myself.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/membracid.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/06\/discovery-chanel-nature-porn\/\">Bug Girl,<\/a> who asks<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is this just a cost of doing business? Or is it that we prefer our nature television like we prefer our porn?<\/p>\n<p>Everything is pretty, the narrative is simple, and there are lots of money shots. It\u2019s close up, sped up, and set to music. There is always a climax to the story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And they&#8217;re faking it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Er, Marlin. As part of its case, &#8221;Cruel Camera&#8221; showed scenes from that much-beloved series &#8221;Wild Kingdom.&#8221; It was broadcast regularly on NBC from 1968 through &#8217;71, and then went into syndication, although new episodes were produced through 1978. How &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/436\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}