{"id":130623,"date":"2023-09-02T13:21:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130623"},"modified":"2023-09-03T13:10:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T17:10:57","slug":"ode-to-mtv-catfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/ode-to-mtv-catfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to MTV Catfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watch this program like it\u2019s a religion.<\/p>\n<p>Nev and Kamie are like Jeckyl and Hyde<\/p>\n<p>for on-line daters around the country.<\/p>\n<p>I like some of their repeats with grey-haired Max puts his true sense in.<\/p>\n<p>Together they photo search if pictures are real<\/p>\n<p>see if phone numbers are legitimate not apps.<\/p>\n<p>Find out if a person is who they say they are.<\/p>\n<p>I celebrate with a victory glass of wine<\/p>\n<p>if the catfish is real.<\/p>\n<p>I dance and laugh when it\u2019s a spouse testing another to see if they will cheat.<\/p>\n<p>Developing fake profiles I cringe<\/p>\n<p>when it\u2019s the opposite sex, a bully, or an obese loner sits behind a screen all day with a box of bon bons.<\/p>\n<p>Socially awkward mental illnesses should not be glorified on television.<\/p>\n<p>Eight seasons later I\u2019m still glued to my couch watching who\u2019s who as Nev and a variety of cohosts run around the country.<\/p>\n<p>These reminders why I never trust on-line dating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watch this program like it\u2019s a religion. Nev and Kamie are like Jeckyl and Hyde for on-line daters around the country. I like some of their repeats with grey-haired Max puts his true sense in. Together they photo search if pictures are real see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144249,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130623\/revisions\/144249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}