{"id":3207,"date":"2009-01-02T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2009-01-02T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T01:23:00","slug":"musings-on-the-rose-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3207","title":{"rendered":"Musings on the Rose Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I sat down and watched most of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tournamentofroses.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rose Parade<\/a> (as an aside, I have no idea why they call it a Tournament of Roses&#8211;there\u2019s no jousting, no besting of knights with American Beauty\u2019s vs. Mr. Lincoln\u2019s&#8230; but I digress). I did this primarily to support Stephanie Edwards, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-onthemedia2-2009jan02,0,3400026.story\" target=\"_blank\">as evidently did a number of other folk<\/a>. But I also checked the other stations. In the past, there was the network coverage of the parade (which was piss-poor), and local coverage on Channels 5, 11, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/KCOP\" target=\"_blank\">13<\/a> (I don\u2019t recall KHJ covering things).  I remember the battle between <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/KTLA\" target=\"_blank\">the KTLA team<\/a> coverage and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/KTTV\" target=\"_blank\">the KTTV team coverage<\/a> (with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0920521\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Welch<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>But now. It\u2019s just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktla.com\/roseparade\" target=\"_blank\">KTLA with the local coverage<\/a>. There was the network coverage (only on ABC and NBC), and HGTV. That\u2019s it. But at least Stephanie is back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I sat down and watched most of the Rose Parade (as an aside, I have no idea why they call it a Tournament of Roses&#8211;there\u2019s no jousting, no besting of knights with American Beauty\u2019s vs. Mr. Lincoln\u2019s&#8230; but I digress). I did this primarily to support Stephanie Edwards, as evidently did a number of <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3207\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","category-lj-xfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}