{"id":1667,"date":"2003-10-31T22:56:15","date_gmt":"2003-11-01T02:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/31\/the-crying-game-show\/"},"modified":"2003-10-31T22:56:15","modified_gmt":"2003-11-01T02:56:15","slug":"the-crying-game-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/31\/the-crying-game-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crying Game Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1667'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"500\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"211\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/bz2.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"241\" align=\"left\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em>LONDON &#8211; A television station said Friday it had shelved a reality show that<br \/>\n      set up six male contestants with what appeared to be a gorgeous woman but<br \/>\n      was actually a transsexual. <\/p>\n<p>The program, &quot;Find Me A Man,&quot; challenged the contestants to woo a leggy<br \/>\nSouth American brunette called Miriam. Only at the end of the show did the men<br \/>\nlearn that Miriam was a preoperative transsexual. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;As Miriam is a transsexual, I would never refer to her as male or female.<br \/>\n      She is a gorgeous creature,&quot; the spokesman told the magazine. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&amp;u=\/ap\/20031031\/ap_on_en_tv\/britain_reality_show\">from Yahoo News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8211; A television station said Friday it had shelved a reality show that set up six male contestants with what appeared to be a gorgeous woman but was actually a transsexual. The program, &quot;Find Me A Man,&quot; challenged the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/31\/the-crying-game-show\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}