{"id":118,"date":"2002-12-06T11:18:55","date_gmt":"2002-12-06T11:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=118"},"modified":"2002-12-06T11:18:55","modified_gmt":"2002-12-06T11:18:55","slug":"putting-on-the-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/12\/06\/putting-on-the-pounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting On The Pounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did I really just hear this right? Whitney Houston told Diane Sawyer that she became so thin that she had to be digitally altered to add weight after an appearance at a Michael Jackson concert? (Send those digital technicians to save Courtney Cox, STAT!)<br \/>\nI heard this mentioned on <span class=\"italic\">All Things Considered<\/span>, where host Jacki Lyden took a little dig at Ms. Sawyer by setting up the bit with something along the lines of: &#8220;Last night Diane Sawyer put her journalistic chops to the test and interviewed Whitney Houston.&#8221; This just after Lyden&#8217;s colleague, Lynn Neary, played video games on air.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/ramfiles\/atc\/20021205.atc.09.ram\">Digitally Altered<\/a> (NPR RealAudio Stream)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did I really just hear this right? Whitney Houston told Diane Sawyer that she became so thin that she had to be digitally altered to add weight after an appearance at a Michael Jackson concert? (Send those digital technicians to save Courtney Cox, STAT!) I heard this mentioned on All Things Considered, where host Jacki&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/12\/06\/putting-on-the-pounds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Putting On The Pounds<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[4,17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-tech-the-net","category-media-journalism-blogs","category-politics-policy-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-1U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}