{"id":1048,"date":"2007-10-16T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattstooks.kcmarketer.com\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2007-10-16T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T16:04:00","slug":"the-terrible-wizard-of-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"The Terrible Wizard of Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to media portrayals of Kansas, I now hate <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Wizard of Oz<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I was watching the K-State-Colorado game this weekend, and the broadcast relied heavily on <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Wizard of Oz<\/span> for its &#8220;about town&#8221; footage.  I would&#8217;ve preferred footage of Manhattan&#8217;s Applebees, that&#8217;s how much I&#8217;m sick of the Wiz.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, we haven&#8217;t done enough as a state in the nearly 70 years since <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Oz <\/span>debuted.  Everyone unfamiliar with Kansas thinks we all encounter tornadoes as much as people in Florida deal with hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>This is bullshit.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mattstooks.com\/101607oz.jpg\" \/><br \/>Also responsible for Liza Minnelli.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to media portrayals of Kansas, I now hate The Wizard of Oz. I was watching the K-State-Colorado game this weekend, and the broadcast relied heavily on The Wizard of Oz for its &#8220;about town&#8221; footage. I would&#8217;ve preferred footage of Manhattan&#8217;s Applebees, that&#8217;s how much I&#8217;m sick of the Wiz. Apparently, we haven&#8217;t done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-state-of-kansas"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4pzeu-gU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattstooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}