{"id":917,"date":"2009-11-11T06:15:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T14:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=917"},"modified":"2009-11-11T06:15:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T14:15:56","slug":"the-greening-of-prime-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/11\/the-greening-of-prime-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greening of Prime Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if network television wasn&#8217;t already the most banal of human experiences, now comes a new wave of corporate slime &#8211; <em>The Greening of Prime Time<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20091111\/ap_on_en_tv\/us_tv_green_nbc\">NBC gives new meaning to the phrase &#8220;green screen&#8221; next week, spreading a pro-environmental message across five of its prime-time entertainment programs. &#8220;30 Rock,&#8221; where Al Gore takes a cameo role, leads the way. Environmental themes were also added to the scripts of &#8220;The Biggest Loser,&#8221; &#8220;The Office,&#8221; &#8220;Heroes&#8221; and &#8220;Community.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least they&#8217;re putting on a good face &#8211; &#8220;Backstage, the show has done its part by removing water bottles in favor of water filters and using chemical-free cleaning products.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Solution to such malarkey? Unplug the idiot box and take a hike.<\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if network television wasn&#8217;t already the most banal of human experiences, now comes a new wave of corporate slime &#8211; The Greening of Prime Time! NBC gives new meaning to the phrase &#8220;green screen&#8221; next week, spreading a pro-environmental message across five of its prime-time entertainment programs. &#8220;30 Rock,&#8221; where Al Gore takes a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}