{"id":1877,"date":"2010-10-06T06:38:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T21:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2010-10-06T06:38:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T21:38:56","slug":"back-to-bacademy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1877","title":{"rendered":"Back to Bacademy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night on TV there was a three hour special edition of the &#8220;Bacademy Awards&#8221; &#8211; and since I was free I watched about an hour of it.  I went into <a href=\"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1726\">great detail about my feelings about this show here<\/a>, but it is a rip-off of America&#8217;s Funniest Home Videos, without the Saget.  <\/p>\n<p>The same annoyances still applied, so I&#8217;m not sure why I watched it, but I guess if you filter out the audience&#8217;s reactions it is entertaining enough.  A lot of the scenes were copped from &#8220;Jackass&#8221;, but the way they were shown it was as if it was common practice in America to do this kind of stupid stuff.  Huh.<\/p>\n<p>Since I brought home lots of Japanese pickles from Kyoto we&#8217;ve been having a steady diet of Japanese food so far this week.  Rice, miso soup, some varieties of pickles, and some nikujaga (hold the niku, please) making this a healthy couple of days.  Tonight we might have to change it up a little&#8230; Thai food, perhaps?<\/p>\n<p>Off to work now to meet the last group of new students &#8211; always a good time (at least for me). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night on TV there was a three hour special edition of the &#8220;Bacademy Awards&#8221; &#8211; and since I was free I watched about an hour of it. I went into great detail about my feelings about this show here, but it is a rip-off of America&#8217;s Funniest Home Videos, without the Saget. The same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-uh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}