{"id":1523,"date":"2009-10-11T12:13:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T19:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2009-10-11T12:13:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T19:13:14","slug":"fame-as-a-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/10\/11\/fame-as-a-mania\/","title":{"rendered":"Fame as a mania."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does reality TV leave viewers <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/8300321.stm\">confused<\/a> as to what is reality and what is fantasy? The BBC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Parents are being asked for up to \u00a340,000 ($80,000) to fund the courses. But some in the industry claim they are a waste of money.<\/p>\n<p>The demand for music and drama courses has soared, following the popularity of TV talent shows such as X Factor.<\/p>\n<p>There are now several thousand in the UK, but only 35 are accredited by the National Council for Drama Training.<\/p>\n<p>According to the council, casting agents do not have the time to visit non-accredited courses, so students stand little chance of getting a job after completing such course. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does reality TV leave viewers confused as to what is reality and what is fantasy? The BBC: Parents are being asked for up to \u00a340,000 ($80,000) to fund the courses. But some in the industry claim they are a waste of money. The demand for music and drama courses has soared, following the popularity of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}