{"id":305,"date":"2002-05-02T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-02T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=305"},"modified":"2021-05-16T08:13:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T12:13:29","slug":"local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2002\/05\/02\/local-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/tvbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\" \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; Just saw a commercial for channel 4&#8217;s &#8220;The Defenders&#8221; &#8212; they&#8217;re the hardhitting reporters who do expos\u00e9s usually on cops and other government employees screwing around on the job. This got me thinking. Channel 2 has a similar group, and they&#8217;re called &#8220;The Problem Solvers&#8221;. So wouldn&#8217;t it be cool if &#8220;The Defenders&#8221; did an expos\u00e9 on &#8220;The Problem Solvers&#8221;?<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;The Defenders&#8221; could shoot surveillance video of &#8220;The Problem Solvers&#8221; sitting around the channel 2 van, wasting time in a McDonald&#8217;s drive-thru, hanging around the parking lot of a party store. &#8220;<i>Channel 2&#8217;s &#8216;Problem Solvers&#8217; were going to force a mechanic to redo his work on this woman&#8217;s car. Little did she know <I>she<\/I> was being taken for a ride!<\/I>&#8220;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; While we&#8217;re at it, might as well throw in channel 7&#8217;s &#8220;Call for Action&#8221; team to videotape the whole thing too. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Just saw a commercial for channel 4&#8217;s &#8220;The Defenders&#8221; &#8212; they&#8217;re the hardhitting reporters who do expos\u00e9s usually on cops and other government employees screwing around on the job. This got me thinking. Channel 2 has a similar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2002\/05\/02\/local-news\/\">Continue reading <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}