{"id":828,"date":"2005-05-28T17:32:21","date_gmt":"2005-05-28T16:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2005-05-28T17:32:21","modified_gmt":"2005-05-28T16:32:21","slug":"review-the-contender-104-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Contender 104 &#8211; 116"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the end of the series (as in, too expensive ($2 million per ep, highest ever for a &#8220;reality&#8221; show)  for the current ratings to try it again for another season), it proved interesting and testosterone buffed enough to last till the end ($1 million fight after eliminating 14 fighters during its run). Mark Burnett&#8217;s reality TV producing skills are a given, and the boxing takes care of the rest. It&#8217;s not the creme de la creme of entertainment (it was moderately entertaining), but I might even watch a second season if there was one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the end of the series (as in, too expensive ($2 million per ep, highest ever for a &#8220;reality&#8221; show) for the current ratings to try it again for another season), it proved interesting and testosterone buffed enough to last till the end ($1 million fight after eliminating 14 fighters during its run). Mark Burnett&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}