{"id":373,"date":"2003-09-08T08:11:11","date_gmt":"2003-09-08T15:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2003\/09\/ellens_alist\/"},"modified":"2003-09-08T08:11:11","modified_gmt":"2003-09-08T15:11:11","slug":"ellens_alist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2003\/09\/ellens_alist.html","title":{"rendered":"ELLEN&#8217;S A-LIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this morning I was watching the debut of &#8220;The Ellen DeGeneres Show,&#8221; and I thought: &#8220;Now<br \/>\nI have a reason not to go to work.&#8221; Actually, I can think of many reasons. But this one was<br \/>\ndressed in pink and white and told jokes. The sensation was something like a daytime Letterman<br \/>\ntalk show for girlie girls. Well, almost. And&nbsp;Ellen got Jennifer Aniston to come say hello.<br \/>\n<A href=\"http:\/\/extratv.warnerbros.com\/dailynews\/extra\/09_03\/09_08c.html\"><FONT\ncolor=#003399><EM><STRONG>(See the video, ignore the<br \/>\ntext.)<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>&nbsp;Anyway, it was&nbsp;more<br \/>\nentertaining&nbsp;than &#8220;Today,&#8221; the morning marathon that led into it. Has anybody noticed how<br \/>\nboring&nbsp;&#8220;Today&#8221; has become? If Katie Couric gets any more manicured she&#8217;ll resemble the<br \/>\nwax figure of her at Madame Tussaud on 42nd Street. (OK, they don&#8217;t have a Katie<br \/>\neffigy&nbsp;&#8230; yet.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this morning I was watching the debut of &#8220;The Ellen DeGeneres Show,&#8221; and I thought: &#8220;Now I have a reason not to go to work.&#8221; Actually, I can think of many reasons. But this one was dressed in pink and white and told jokes. The sensation was something like a daytime Letterman talk show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-61","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}