{"id":1429,"date":"2006-01-24T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/01\/24\/columbia-warner-i-guess\/"},"modified":"2006-01-24T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-24T19:49:00","slug":"columbia-warner-i-guess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2006\/01\/24\/columbia-warner-i-guess\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Columbia Warner&#8221;, I guess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the LA Times, via <a href=\"http:\/\/kfmonkey.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/wbupnthe-cw.html\">Kung Fu Monkey<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-012406tv_lat,0,5458802.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">UPN, WB to Merge Into New Network<\/a>.  And they&#8217;ll be called &#8220;The CW&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I find it amusing that the practice of prefixing common words with a definite article, which many comedians use to lampoon old codgers and non-native English speakers&#8211; e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Cho#I.27m_The_One_That_I_Want_Tour\">&#8220;Is he the gay?&#8221;<\/a>&#8212; has been adopted by hipsters to sound cool, if only ironically.  Witness &#8220;The WB&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_OC\">&#8220;The OC&#8221;<\/a>, and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the LA Times, via Kung Fu Monkey: UPN, WB to Merge Into New Network. And they&#8217;ll be called &#8220;The CW&#8221;. I find it amusing that the practice of prefixing common words with a definite article, which many comedians use&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}