{"id":749,"date":"2016-01-01T06:51:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T22:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/01\/disneys-vomit-worthy-method-of-promoting-the-college-football-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2016-01-01T06:51:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T22:51:17","slug":"disneys-vomit-worthy-method-of-promoting-the-college-football-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/01\/disneys-vomit-worthy-method-of-promoting-the-college-football-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney's vomit-worthy method of promoting the college football playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If the final big sporting events of 2015 are any indication, 2016 will mark the post-modern corporate dystopia we’ve all long-feared is our soul-crushing destiny as a species. <\/p>\n

You’ll find the proof, however, in an unusual place: The most recent episode of General Hospital<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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See also: Taco Bell’s cute baseball tweet is everything that’s wrong with America<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

We’ll soon get to how General Hospital<\/em> reveals our slipping collective grip on the final shards of anything resembling cultural authenticity. But first, we need to back up a bit<\/p>\n

Last year was the first-ever college football playoff. Four teams faced off to crown one final champion. ESPN owns the rights to this goldmine, and last year the semifinals drew massive ratings Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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If the final big sporting events of 2015 are any indication, 2016 will mark the post-modern corporate dystopia we’ve all long-feared is our soul-crushing destiny as a species. You’ll find the proof, however, in an unusual place: The most recent … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,79,154,153,1,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-entertainment","category-espn","category-football","category-other","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}