{"id":4962,"date":"2007-06-02T03:17:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T03:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2007-06-02T03:17:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T03:17:12","slug":"dutch-tv-lies-about-kidney-competition-for-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/dutch-tv-lies-about-kidney-competition-for-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch TV Lies About Kidney Competition for Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s either brilliant or a completely dickish thing to do.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p>A Dutch TV contest which purported to show a dying woman choose a patient to receive her kidneys was a hoax.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/6714063.stm\" class=\"external external_icon\">The &#8220;donor&#8221; in the show was in fact an actress &#8211; though the three people vying for an organ were real patients in need of a kidney transplant.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The three knew that The Big Donor Show, which aired on Friday, was not real. The producers say it was made to highlight the shortage of Dutch donors.   <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcnews\" class=\"external external_icon\">twitter bbc<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s either brilliant or a completely dickish thing to do. A Dutch TV contest which purported to show a dying woman choose a patient to receive her kidneys was a hoax. The &#8220;donor&#8221; in the show was in fact an actress &#8211; though the three people vying for an organ were real patients in need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-4962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}