{"id":2539,"date":"2010-01-11T22:27:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T22:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2010-01-11T22:27:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T22:27:38","slug":"the_late_shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2539","title":{"rendered":"The Late Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Comcast does end up buying NBC, can it stick Jay Leno on some low-rent cable channel where he can fulfill the remainder of his contract delivering cheap yuks to the same people who think eating out at Applebee&#8217;s is a fine dining experience? <a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/10\/nbc-confirms-leno-will-leave-prime-time-in-february\/\">Poor Conan<\/a>. He should have bailed on the network as it became apparent that Leno would never retire and that NBC would never say &#8220;no&#8221; to him. Perhaps Fox will steal him away and give him a forum where he can be true to his inner Ivy League dork. But he&#8217;ll still have a hard time tearing me away from Craig Ferguson and his puppets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Comcast does end up buying NBC, can it stick Jay Leno on some low-rent cable channel where he can fulfill the remainder of his contract delivering cheap yuks to the same people who think eating out at Applebee&#8217;s is a fine dining experience? Poor Conan. He should have bailed on the network as it <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2539' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-EX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}