{"id":4947,"date":"2011-01-31T12:12:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T17:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=4947"},"modified":"2011-01-31T12:17:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T17:17:43","slug":"survivor-redemption-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/01\/31\/survivor-redemption-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivor Redemption Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">D<\/span>id you catch the commercial this week promoting the new season of Survivor?  It&#8217;s Boston Rob versus Russell!  And I guffawed out loud at Jeff Probst&#8217;s observation, &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna need a bigger torch!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"500\" height=\"304\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ccL0Txglm4U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20453217,00.html\">Apparently<\/a>, there&#8217;s a new twist to the game in this 22nd iteration:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Survivor: Redemption Island, which premieres Feb. 16 on CBS, when a contestant is voted off, he or she won&#8217;t leave the game completely but go instead to Redemption Island, where he or she will face off against the next person voted off in a duel. The winner lives on to face the next arrival at Redemption Island until one person left standing has a chance to return to the game. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Historic moment, peeps &#8212; that may be the first time in six years of blogging that I&#8217;ve ever quoted from People magazine!)<\/p>\n<p>Boston Rob is on his, what, fourth or fifth season now, but I&#8217;m still looking forward to this. I still think Russell was robbed in Survivor Samoa and totally should have won the million bucks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also heard that they&#8217;ve adapted the rules to give discretionary power to send someone directly home rather than keeping them around for the jury, after NaOnka and Kelly S quit Survivor Nicaragua.  They should not have been allowed to stay as jury members, IMHO.<\/p>\n<p>I just wish they&#8217;d move Survivor back to Thursday night where it belongs.  After 10 years of habit, it&#8217;s messing with the flow of my week to have it on Wednesday nights!<\/p>\n<p>Yay, Survivor is (almost) back!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edited to add:<\/strong>  oooh, and this one is also good. It&#8217;s from the CBS website, though, and you have to sit through a 20 second commercial (sigh) first.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"500\" height=\"304\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z6NRHvuUwbA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you catch the commercial this week promoting the new season of Survivor? It&#8217;s Boston Rob versus Russell! And I guffawed out loud at Jeff Probst&#8217;s observation, &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna need a bigger torch!&#8221; Apparently, there&#8217;s a new twist to the game in this 22nd iteration: On Survivor: Redemption Island, which premieres Feb. 16 on CBS, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/01\/31\/survivor-redemption-island\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Survivor Redemption Island&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4947"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4951,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions\/4951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}