{"id":341,"date":"2009-08-07T17:27:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T01:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2009-08-07T17:27:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T01:27:22","slug":"its-a-dirty-job-alright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Its a dirty job alright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes real-life is so much funnier than any comedy troupe could ever make it. Tonight, during the evening news on television, I caught an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2007\/03\/03\/video-fords-dirty-job-selling-the-f150\/\">advertisement for Ford trucks<\/a>. The pitch-man was Mike Rowe, host of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/\">Discovery Channel<\/a> program <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/fansites\/dirtyjobs\/dirtyjobs.html\">Dirty Jobs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you aren&#8217;t familiar with Mike or his program, the basic premise is that he tackles those very undesirable jobs. Some examples include cleaning sewers, disposing of dead animals in a factory, or cleaning portable toilets.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, selling American-made vehicles probably is a job nobody else wants to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes real-life is so much funnier than any comedy troupe could ever make it. Tonight, during the evening news on television, I caught an advertisement for Ford trucks. The pitch-man was Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel program Dirty Jobs. If you aren&#8217;t familiar with Mike or his program, the basic premise is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobandeileen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}