{"id":2034,"date":"2009-09-26T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/09\/pot-of-bulbous-bile-found-at-end-of-reading-rainbow\/"},"modified":"2009-09-26T14:31:50","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T21:31:50","slug":"pot-of-bulbous-bile-found-at-end-of-reading-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/26\/pot-of-bulbous-bile-found-at-end-of-reading-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Pot Of Bulbous Bile Found At End Of Reading Rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Onion<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

My Living Nightmare Of Encouraging Kids To Read Is Over<\/h2>\n

BY LEVAR BURTON<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank god.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

After 26 long years, I can finally rest easy. Twenty-six years I spent standing in front of a camera, gritting my teeth, and shilling the latest works of every hack children’s book author imaginable. For 26 years, I’ve told kids they could open a magical door to another world just by reading a book, when the only door it ever opened for me led to a soul-sucking career in the horrifying abyss of public television.<\/p>\n

But now, at last, it is over. I don’t have to lie anymore. I don’t have to live that nightmare.<\/p>\n

When the news came that\u00a0Reading Rainbow\u00a0<\/em>would be canceled due to a lack of funding, I felt\u2014well, to use a clich\u00e9 like you’d find in one of the hundreds of books I pimped endlessly\u2014like a huge weight had been lifted from my shoulders. Every day I went to work hoping that maybe the studio had burned down, that maybe the program had been cut, that maybe PBS would finally stop squeezing the life from me drop by drop. Now that it’s over, I feel the relief a bruised and broken soldier must feel when he is rescued after rotting away for decades in some dank, forgotten POW camp.<\/p>\n

May that godforsaken show burn in hell.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at The Onion<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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