{"id":1731,"date":"2006-12-29T10:16:56","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T14:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2006-12-29T10:16:56","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T14:16:56","slug":"the-execution-of-saddam-to-be-televised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1731","title":{"rendered":"The execution of Saddam to be televised?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jumping_the_shark\"><strong>Jumping the shark:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jump-the-shark moments are typically scenes that finally convince viewers that the show has fundamentally and permanently strayed from its original premise. In these cases, they are viewed as a desperate and futile attempt to keep a series fresh in the face of a decline in ratings. In other cases, the departure or replacement of a main cast member or character or a significant change in setting changes a critical dynamic of the show.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase specifically arises from a scene in the hit TV comedy series Happy Days. During the show&#8217;s run, the writers were challenged to come up with new, fresh stories; they developed a story where Arthur &#8220;Fonzie&#8221; Fonzarelli is on water skis, wearing his trademark leather jacket despite the well-known negative effects of salt water on leather, and literally jumps over a shark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Part II of <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.law.pitt.edu\/paperchase\/2006\/12\/us-handover-of-saddam-reported.php\">the episode<\/a>: &#8220;Fonzie&#8221; reveals his &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/atimes\/Middle_East\/HL22Ak01.html\">new<\/a>&#8216; plan for Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jumping the shark: Jump-the-shark moments are typically scenes that finally convince viewers that the show has fundamentally and permanently strayed from its original premise. In these cases, they are viewed as a desperate and futile attempt to keep a series &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1731\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-rV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}