{"id":20,"date":"2006-08-09T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/08\/now-a-new-lower-life-form.html"},"modified":"2006-08-09T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T03:01:00","slug":"now-a-new-lower-life-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/08\/now-a-new-lower-life-form.html","title":{"rendered":"Now a New, Lower Life Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve done it.  I&#8217;ve lost my bragging rights, my rights to any sense of superiority.  I&#8217;ve voted for a contestant of a reality show.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/dance\/\">So You Think You Can Dance<\/a> all summer and feeling the dancer and choreographer in me wake up for the first time in quite a while.  I miss being able to do that stuff!  Unfortunately, my couch isn&#8217;t helping me to train for my undiscovered career as America&#8217;s favorite dancer\/choreographer\/actor\/singer\/goddess.  Oh, yeah&#8230; and I&#8217;ll dazzle everyone with my modesty and graciousness.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s neither here nor there.  You see, I&#8217;ve always scoffed at reality talent shows.  I&#8217;ve never even watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanidol.com\/\">American Idol<\/a>.  But tonight there was one clear winner for me.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/dance\/bios\/19_twall.htm\">Travis<\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">ROCKS<\/span>!  And I&#8217;ve seen on previous weeks when the best dancer loses because everybody thinks everybody else is voting for that dancer.  So tonight&#8230; I voted not once, not twice, but ten times.  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Can you believe it?<\/span>  If this ever gets out, I&#8217;ll be a laughing stock at home, at work, among my friends, and possibly even on crowded city streets.<\/p>\n<p>Just don&#8217;t tell anyone, okay?  Promise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve done it. I&#8217;ve lost my bragging rights, my rights to any sense of superiority. I&#8217;ve voted for a contestant of a reality show. I&#8217;ve been watching So You Think You Can Dance all summer and feeling the dancer and choreographer in me wake up for the first time in quite a while. I miss &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2006\/08\/now-a-new-lower-life-form.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now a New, Lower Life Form<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me-and-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}