{"id":1163,"date":"2009-10-07T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T08:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2011-01-15T13:11:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:11:45","slug":"outrageous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1163","title":{"rendered":"#outrageous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local TV warhorse <em>Outrageous Fortune<\/em> ran its season 5 finale last night, and it was a corker. After some traditional end-of-season antics it delivered a change-up in literally the last few seconds, going out on a serious game-changer of a cliffhanger, hands-over-mouth stuff that smartly built on everything we&#8217;d seen before. Outstanding work &#8211; <em>Outrageous<\/em> was wheelspinning in the first third of this season but really got moving after that, and this was a great capper.<br \/>\nInteresting too to see #outrageous as a trending topic on Twitter, which means that it was one of the most tweeted-about subjects globally. (It helped that America was asleep.) In Twitters self-devouring world, the moment it showed up in the &#8220;trending topics&#8221; list it started getting noticed and grabbed up. It <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#search?q=%23outrageous\">continues to trend as I write<\/a>, now as a general tag for writers to talk about what outrages them. What the heck, it&#8217;s another Kiwi contribution to the global pop culture conversation &#8211; like those lets-make-a-pop-band shows. Er.<br \/>\nAhhh, gotta go catch a bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local TV warhorse Outrageous Fortune ran its season 5 finale last night, and it was a corker. After some traditional end-of-season antics it delivered a change-up in literally the last few seconds, going out on a serious game-changer of a cliffhanger, hands-over-mouth stuff that smartly built on everything we&#8217;d seen before. Outstanding work &#8211; Outrageous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#outrageous<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-ive-seen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-iL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}