{"id":3871,"date":"2015-06-15T14:14:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T19:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2015-06-17T10:20:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T15:20:03","slug":"katie-couric-wins-the-internets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3871","title":{"rendered":"Katie Couric Wins the Internets!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/katie-couric.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3874\" title=\"katie couric\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/katie-couric.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Once upon a time &#8216;mericans watched television all day and all night whether there was something good on or not (and there usually wasn&#8217;t). They&#8217;d go to sleep with the <em>Tonight Show<\/em> and wake up to the <em>Today<\/em> show because they were too lazy to change the channel \u2013 which took physical effort<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3875\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3875\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/j_fred_muggs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3875\" title=\"j_fred_muggs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/j_fred_muggs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A chimp co-anchor? That&#39;s almost as funny as having a lady do it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>back then as most people didn&#8217;t have \u201cremotes.\u201d The TV would be playing while Americans got ready for their jobs \u2013 which everyone who wanted to work had, especially the men folk \u2013 because those were the days, and the \u201chomemakers\u201d (old-speak for \u201cstay at home moms\u201d) would watch in the kitchen while making a nutritious breakfast for the family before everyone left and the soap operas started.<\/p>\n<p>Katie Couric (co-anchor 1991-2006) joined <em>Today <\/em>at a tough time. The show had survived an anchor-chimp and even Barbara Walters, but then came the real crisis.<a href=\"http:\/\/happynicetimepeople.com\/katie-couric-wins-the-internets\/\"> (Read the rest of this fascinating post on HNTP)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time &#8216;mericans watched television all day and all night whether there was something good on or not (and there usually wasn&#8217;t). They&#8217;d go to sleep with the Tonight Show and wake up to the Today show because they were too lazy to change the channel \u2013 which took physical effort back then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3871\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Katie Couric Wins the Internets!<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871"}],"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=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3885,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions\/3885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}