{"id":563,"date":"2008-04-06T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2008\/04\/extreme-breakthrough\/"},"modified":"2008-04-06T13:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T13:02:00","slug":"extreme-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/extreme-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an idea for a new reality show, quite unlike what is out there.  It would be an extreme makeover of a very different kind.  I would call it:  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Extreme Breakthrough.<\/span>  In this show, there&#8217;d be no surgery, no new wardrobe, no makeup sessions, no dental work.  The success would be based on how well the person does when bathed in praise and love. <\/p>\n<p>The contestant would be a low self-esteem neurotic type, perhaps perceived as overweight or plain, or nebbishy, and for three months, she would be completely surrounded by positive energy and praise.  People would talk to her about things she&#8217;s done and why they were good things.  She would be encouraged and supported to pursue a project of her dreams (living in Paris for a month alone, painting on the Left Bank, perhaps, or setting up a home for battered women; volunteering for Special Olympics, helping out at a hospice, making a whole new garden somewhere, going to cooking school, whatever).  Family members would be required to tell her she&#8217;s beautiful, that she&#8217;s got perfect this or the best that.  They would have to exercise total self-control for three months around her or else they could not be around her.  Strangers would open doors for her, bosses would compliment and praise, children would behave around her, and spouse\/boyfriend would be under oath to do all kind things for three months:  backrubs, orgasms, cooking, playing with her hair. <\/p>\n<p>Nothing would need to be bought, except perhaps the people involved would get some kind of reward at the end of it:  a happier loved one in their lives.  Someone who has seen what it&#8217;s like to be loved and cherished for exactly who she is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an idea for a new reality show, quite unlike what is out there. It would be an extreme makeover of a very different kind. I would call it: Extreme Breakthrough. In this show, there&#8217;d be no surgery, no new wardrobe, no makeup sessions, no dental work. The success would be based on how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-95","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}