{"id":1640,"date":"2009-10-01T08:31:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T16:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parentingteensblog.net\/?p=481"},"modified":"2009-10-01T08:31:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T16:31:51","slug":"a-dose-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/2009\/10\/01\/a-dose-of-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dose of Reality!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/parentingteensblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/stefan-113x300.png\" alt=\"stefan\" title=\"stefan\" width=\"113\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-482\" \/>Ok, so ya&#8217;ll KNOW I&#8217;m a <a href=\"http:\/\/realitydaze.com\" target=\"_blank\">reality tv junkie<\/a>. Big time. <a href=\"http:\/\/bigbrothercraze.us\">Big Brother<\/a> is my first love, followed by Survivor and TAR, but I dabble in just about every Reality Show available &#8211; except them trashy VH1 shows. Unless it&#8217;s like 2am and nothing else is on and HOW WEIRD is that Daisy of Love chick? And really, Rikki Lake, you&#8217;ve nothing better to do then host a bunch of reality rejects and pretend to turn them into real girls on CHARM SCHOOL?! How the mighty have fallen!<\/p>\n<p>ANYWAY. (I have a point, I swear!)<\/p>\n<p>I just realized I&#8217;ve missed the first six episodes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bravotv.com\/top-chef\" target=\"_blank\">Top Chef: Las Vegas<\/a>. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? You know what reminded me? The fact that our Sweepstakes features GE Appliances and you know who ELSE uses GE Appliances? That&#8217;s right! The Cheftestants on Top Chef, since season three! Season five&#8217;s runner up, Stefan Richter, won a suite of his own GE appliances after winning the infamous restaurant wars challenge! Oh, Stefan, you Finnish delight, you!<\/p>\n<p>So, want to get one step closer to cooking like a pro? Enter the Strong as Steel Sweepstakes using the widget right over there at the top of the sidebar &#8211;> for your chance to win one of five brand new GE Appliances and in no time you&#8217;ll be the hottest dish in the kitchen!<\/p>\n<p>Just like Stefan. (raaaaaaaawr!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so ya&#8217;ll KNOW I&#8217;m a reality tv junkie. Big time. Big Brother is my first love, followed by Survivor and TAR, but I dabble in just about every Reality Show available &#8211; except them trashy VH1 shows. Unless it&#8217;s like 2am and nothing else is on and HOW WEIRD is that Daisy of Love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[230,233,235,284],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-giveaway","tag-ge-appliances","tag-ge-sweepstakes","tag-getstuff","tag-strong-as-steel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gonfalon.org\/eclat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}