{"id":179,"date":"2008-03-16T07:34:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T07:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dgen.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/16\/solitary-human-tamagochi\/"},"modified":"2008-03-16T07:34:21","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T07:34:21","slug":"solitary-human-tamagochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/2008\/03\/16\/solitary-human-tamagochi\/","title":{"rendered":"Solitary \/ Human Tamagochi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was hoping that I was being ridiculous when creating the &#8220;ultimate reality TV show format&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/dgen.net\/blog\/index.php\/2001\/08\/28\/human-tamagochi\/\">Human Tamagochi<\/a> &#8211; in 2001&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>but apparently Fox TV thinks it&#8217;s a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/03\/14\/mother-jones-on-tvs.html\">Boing Boing<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/news\/feature\/2008\/03\/torture-index.html\">Mother Jones<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of the &#8220;Torture Hits Home&#8221; package in the new issue of Mother Jones, Michael Mechanic has written a terrific story about the Fox reality TV show Solitary. The show features contestants who undergo brutal psychological and physical &#8220;treatments&#8221; with a $50,000 prize as the carrot on the stick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was hoping that I was being ridiculous when creating the &#8220;ultimate reality TV show format&#8221; &#8211; Human Tamagochi &#8211; in 2001&#8230; but apparently Fox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfJFK3-2T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dgen.net\/0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}