{"id":951,"date":"2008-05-12T14:22:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T21:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=951"},"modified":"2008-05-12T14:22:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T21:22:01","slug":"i-%e2%99%a5-joel-mchale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"I \u00e2\u2122\u00a5 Joel McHale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, really. He&#8217;s my hero.<br \/>\nI remember seeing the old Talk Soup show years back, but hadn&#8217;t seen it since it morphed into The Soup. And the hilarious cynicism of McHale just sells it. Plus, as the show says, he watches all the crap so I don&#8217;t have to! Or, his staff of writers does, but his Eddie Izzard pantomiming just nails it. Plus, their nerdy post-commercial pie chart this week made me the happys.<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/snapshot20080512133912.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/snapshot20080512133912.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"snapshot20080512133912\" width=\"464\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-952\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, really. He&#8217;s my hero. I remember seeing the old Talk Soup show years back, but hadn&#8217;t seen it since it morphed into The Soup. And the hilarious cynicism of McHale just sells it. Plus, as the show says, he watches all the crap so I don&#8217;t have to! Or, his staff of writers does, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,27],"tags":[58,335,357,385],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-movies","tag-iron-man","tag-joel-mchale","tag-reality-tv","tag-the-soup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}