{"id":8656,"date":"2017-09-18T20:23:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T03:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8656"},"modified":"2017-10-07T20:27:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T03:27:24","slug":"south-park-f%e2%80%a0ckery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/18\/south-park-f%e2%80%a0ckery\/","title":{"rendered":"South Park F\u2020ckery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/south-park-premiere-messes-viewers-amazon-alexa-google-home-1039035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"blog-post-headline\">&#8216;South Park&#8217; Episode Triggers Viewers&#8217; Amazon Alexa and Google Home<\/h1>\n<p>by Ryan Parker<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/usGpe3abycA\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 21st season of\u00a0<em>South Park<\/em> premiered on Wednesday and, as the show usually does, touched on multiple current topics.<\/p>\n<p>The episode, &#8220;White People Renovating Houses,&#8221; mostly skewered the white nationalist movement, poking fun at members&#8217; obsession with waving the Confederate flag.<\/p>\n<p>But it was another aspect of the storyline that was messing with some viewers&#8217; smart speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Both\u00a0Alexa and Google Home were featured in &#8220;White People Renovating Houses,&#8221; and the cartoon characters yelling commands at their cartoon models for 30 minutes played havoc on some actual Alexa and Home models.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/live-feed\/south-park-premiere-messes-viewers-amazon-alexa-google-home-1039035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at THR<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Hollywood Reporter &#8216;South Park&#8217; Episode Triggers Viewers&#8217; Amazon Alexa and Google Home by Ryan Parker The 21st season of\u00a0South Park premiered on Wednesday and, as the show usually does, touched on multiple current topics. The episode, &#8220;White People Renovating Houses,&#8221; mostly skewered the white nationalist movement, poking fun at members&#8217; obsession with waving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}