{"id":9,"date":"2007-06-05T00:45:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T06:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carrieandben.benzinnecker.com\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2009-12-01T23:41:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T05:41:50","slug":"food-network-v-bravo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/05\/food-network-v-bravo\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Network v. Bravo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I caught the tail end of the 2nd season of The Next Food Network Star last night.  After a few minutes of part II of the season premiere Ben and I both had the same thought&#8230;it was a total rip off of Bravo&#8217;s Top Chef!  If you know me, then you know that I love the Food Network.  Am I upset with the Food Network for shamelessly copying Top Chef?  Not upset&#8230;just disappointed.  However, good move for the Food Network&#8230;last season was a little boring.  If you can&#8217;t come up with good ideas on your own, then you might as well just steal someone else&#8217;s!  I enjoyed Top Chef a lot more than Food Network Star last season, as did most of the TV viewing public.  I am anxiously awaiting the premiere of Top Chef on June 13.  I will now spend\/waste 2 nights a week watching wannabe chefs compete for fame and fortune with way more drama than necessary.  It will be interesting to see if Food Networks efforts to re-vamp their series will be a success&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/topchef.jpg\" title=\"Top Chef 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/topchef.thumbnail.jpg?w=858\" alt=\"Top Chef 2\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>                                                  <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/foodtvstar.gif\" title=\"FoodTVStar\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/foodtvstar.thumbnail.gif?w=858\" alt=\"FoodTVStar\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:70px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/05\/food-network-v-bravo\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"400\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught the tail end of the 2nd season of The Next Food Network Star last night. After a few minutes of part II of the season premiere Ben and I both had the same thought&#8230;it was a total rip off of Bravo&#8217;s Top Chef! If you know me, then you know that I love [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51jE-9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hottie-biscotti.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}