{"id":3836,"date":"2015-06-02T09:57:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T14:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2015-06-02T09:57:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T14:57:16","slug":"games-people-play-the-briefcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3836","title":{"rendered":"Games People Play: The Briefcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3837\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3837\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/queenforaday.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3837 \" title=\"queenforaday\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/queenforaday-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/queenforaday-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/queenforaday.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And she never had dishpan hands again!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Back in ancient times before the words \u201creality\u201d and \u201ctelevision\u201d were ever put together, there was a game show called\u00a0<em>Queen for a Day<\/em>. The \u201ccontestants\u201d were all ladies with problems. Not television problems like \u201cUh-oh, Darren just told me his boss is coming for dinner and Aunt Harriet turned the house into a medieval castle,\u201d but REAL problems like not being able to pay for a life-saving operation\u2014<em>for your child<\/em>. The ladies competed to see whose story was the most pathetic. The audience would vote for the \u201cwinner.\u201d The queen would then parade around in a tiara and fur-lined cape. What did she get for humiliating herself and her family on national television? Cash money to fix her problems, plus a whole lot of stuff from the sponsors. What did the losers get? The technical term is\u00a0<em>bupkiss<\/em>.<em> (Really, I&#8217;m going to get up to CBS&#8217;s new show soon, and you can read the rest over at <a href=\"http:\/\/happynicetimepeople.com\/a-briefcase-full-of-humilation-and-cash\/\">HNTP<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in ancient times before the words \u201creality\u201d and \u201ctelevision\u201d were ever put together, there was a game show called\u00a0Queen for a Day. The \u201ccontestants\u201d were all ladies with problems. Not television problems like \u201cUh-oh, Darren just told me his boss is coming for dinner and Aunt Harriet turned the house into a medieval castle,\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3836\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Games People Play: The Briefcase<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[496],"tags":[1170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3838,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3836\/revisions\/3838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}