{"id":120,"date":"2012-03-04T14:23:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T13:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2012-03-04T14:23:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T13:23:30","slug":"unreality-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Unreality Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was told, take him round the back and deal with him. I mean, there\u2019s no ambiguity in that, is there? Everybody knows what that means. He knew what it meant. He didn\u2019t struggle, didn\u2019t plead. He was meek as a lamb. Hurrying almost, as if he couldn\u2019t wait for it to be over. <em>He<\/em> was leading <em>me<\/em>. All I could think about was how tight the cord was on his wrists, that it must really hurt, that his hands were turning white. It was my first day, you know? I wasn\u2019t gonna go making a scene. I mean, this is what we signed up for. Really.<\/p>\n<p>Funny, though, cos I saw him a week later on Al Jazeera. Somebody must have moved him, cos he was face down when I left him. Seeing him on TV helped, actually. Made it more unreal. Anyway, I\u2019d already quit by then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was told, take him round the back and deal with him. I mean, there\u2019s no ambiguity in that, is there? Everybody knows what that means. He knew what it<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/?p=120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unreality Television<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonkearns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}