{"id":264,"date":"2003-04-20T01:24:46","date_gmt":"2003-04-20T01:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=264"},"modified":"2003-04-20T01:24:46","modified_gmt":"2003-04-20T01:24:46","slug":"quality-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/04\/20\/quality-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hostesses.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/blog\/archives\/blogpics\/hostesses.jpg?resize=350%2C125\" width=\"350\" height=\"125\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nWhile your television is gathering dust during TV Turnoff Week, you can ease the withdrawals by watching these clips of a Japanese television show featuring bar hostesses settling old scores on the mat.<br \/>\nIn a dark room, a crowd of hostesses (the women who entertain clients at certain kinds of bars) crowd around a mat, where two of them wrestle, punch, pull hair and constantly have to pull down their mini skirts. The winner gets to shove a pie in the face of the loser.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/static\/flicks\/quality_tv\/7790.html\">Clip One: The Fight<\/a> (QuickTime Movie 2MB)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/static\/flicks\/quality_tv\/7793.html\">Clip Two: The Pie<\/a> (QuickTime Movie 1.5MB)<br \/>\nThe show continued with a segment that included women in bikinis reading off their body measurements and jump roping (in heels, by the sound of it).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/static\/flicks\/quality_tv\/7800.html\">Clip Three: Bikini Jump Roping<\/a> (QuickTime Movie 3MB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While your television is gathering dust during TV Turnoff Week, you can ease the withdrawals by watching these clips of a Japanese television show featuring bar hostesses settling old scores on the mat. In a dark room, a crowd of hostesses (the women who entertain clients at certain kinds of bars) crowd around a mat,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/04\/20\/quality-television\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quality Television<\/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":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entries-with-images","category-life-in-japan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-4g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","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=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}