{"id":3982,"date":"2013-06-14T17:05:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T22:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2013-06-14T17:05:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T22:05:53","slug":"jon-vs-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3982","title":{"rendered":"Jon Vs. John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My verdict on the first week of John Oliver hosting <em>The Daily Show<\/em>: not bad. He tries a little too hard to imitate Jon Stewart\u2019s mannerisms, but that will probably fade once he settles in behind the desk. Oliver and the writing staff have gotten some good material out of the recent NSA leak and the guest interviews have been competent. I hope Oliver realizes that he doesn\u2019t have to be Stewart with a British accent and brings more of his quite funny stranger-in-a-strange-land sensibility to the show.<\/p>\n<p>The A.V. Club has its own take on Oliver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/the-daily-show,98973\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My verdict on the first week of John Oliver hosting The Daily Show: not bad. He tries a little too hard to imitate Jon Stewart\u2019s mannerisms, but that will probably fade once he settles in behind the desk. Oliver and the writing staff have gotten some good material out of the recent NSA leak and <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3982' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","category-11-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-12e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982","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=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3983,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}