{"id":458,"date":"2005-01-20T10:50:38","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T15:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2005\/01\/inaugurate_this_fratboy\/"},"modified":"2005-01-20T10:50:38","modified_gmt":"2005-01-20T15:50:38","slug":"inaugurate_this_fratboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2005\/01\/inaugurate_this_fratboy\/","title":{"rendered":"INAUGURATE THIS, FRATBOY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been tough on Nancy Franklin, so to be fair here&#8217;s a lead that made me chortle: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/greg.org\/archive\/new_yorker_magazine_database.php\" target=\"_blank\">America is having a torrid love affair with \u201cDesperate Housewives,\u201d and I feel so left out&#8230;<\/A>&#8221; [Greg&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/greg.org\/archive\/2005\/01\/12\/20050117_this_week_in_the_new_yorker.html\" target=\"_blank\">archives<\/A> RULE.]<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\nGOOFY GOOBERS &#8212; NOT:<BR><BR><br \/>\n&#8220;&#8230;It is not the first time that children&#8217;s TV favorites have come under the critical spotlight of the U.S. Christian right. Tinky Winky, the purse-toting purple Teletubbie, was in 1999 declared a homosexual role model by Rev. Jerry Falwell.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/arts\/entertainment-life-spongebob.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/A>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=7388096\" target=\"_blank\">Jill Serjeant in Reuters<\/A>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been tough on Nancy Franklin, so to be fair here&#8217;s a lead that made me chortle: &#8220;America is having a torrid love affair with \u201cDesperate Housewives,\u201d and I feel so left out&#8230;&#8221; [Greg&#8217;s archives RULE.] GOOFY GOOBERS &#8212; NOT: &#8220;&#8230;It is not the first time that children&#8217;s TV favorites have come under the critical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}