{"id":178,"date":"2018-09-04T18:40:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T18:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visakanv.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2025-03-08T09:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T09:27:13","slug":"wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2018\/09\/04\/wwe\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I remember when I was a young child \u2013 maybe five or six years old \u2013 when I first watched WWE on TV. (At the time it was called WWF, or &#8220;world wrestling federation&#8221;. The name change was for legal reasons, but it did inadvertently put the emphasis on the &#8220;entertainment&#8221; aspect.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think what&#8217;s interesting to examine is&#8230; how did I think about what I saw?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My brother Srini loved the WWE more than I did, I think. He loved it in a very pure, primal way.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how big a fan I was exactly. I was&#8230; a bit of a fan. I liked Shawn Michaels. We had a copy of Wrestlemania for the Sega Megadrive, and I played that a lot. I remember at some point looking up guides for it on GameFAQs, and I was pleased with myself when I learned how the combos work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I watched &#8220;Wrestling Isn&#8217;t Wrestling&#8221; and I loved it. I was moved by it. It&#8217;s a compelling story about a compelling story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019ve been stewing this theory for 1 year +:<br><br>Just as how the WWE isn\u2019t a wrestling show, but a show ABOUT a wrestling show,<br><br>mainstream media is less about the news than a participatory interactive tv show ABOUT the news<br><br>Cable News Network is really Cable News Entertainment <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QZO2t8I9fI\">https:\/\/t.co\/QZO2t8I9fI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1004190525270851584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember when I was a young child \u2013 maybe five or six years old \u2013 when I first watched WWE on TV. (At the time it was called WWF, or &#8220;world wrestling federation&#8221;. The name change was for legal reasons, but it did inadvertently put the emphasis on the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[806],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5gxNz-wwe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14675,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/14675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}