{"id":340,"date":"2007-01-19T07:51:52","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T12:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinreams.com\/2007\/01\/19\/your-guide-to-the-discovery-channel\/"},"modified":"2007-01-19T07:51:52","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T12:51:52","slug":"your-guide-to-the-discovery-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Your Guide to the Discovery Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\tI love the Discovery Channel<\/a>. Why? It’s the only “cable” channel we get in our “basic cable” package. Apparently that package means local programming + spanish channels + paid programming + Discovery Channel. Now that you understand why I’m a self-declared expert on the aforementioned channel, read on to learn more about the diverse programming found on Discovery…<\/p>\n

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\tLets play a matching game! Try to match the description with the show:<\/p>\n

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  1. Freezing, Wet Jobs<\/strong> – Learn how hard it is to fish in the Bearing Sea (hint: you get cold and wet). <\/li>\n
  2. Explosive Jobs<\/strong> – Explore the excitement behind blowing something up four different ways every week.<\/li>\n
  3. Robber Jobs<\/strong> – Learn how easy it is to break into people’s houses and what to do to secure your own.<\/li>\n
  4. Survival Jobs<\/strong> – Understand how much it would suck if you were stranded, deserted, or lost just about anywhere but downtown.<\/li>\n
  5. Dirty Jobs<\/strong> – Learn about the occupations you intentionally try not to learn about.<\/li>\n
  6. Psuedo-Science Jobs<\/strong> – See how science can look cool while learning absolutely nothing.<\/li>\n
  7. Medical Jobs<\/strong> – A first-hand look at how gross it is to operate on people.<\/li>\n
  8. Painful Jobs<\/strong> – Get your adrenaline up watching other people bike, ski, and fall from places you’d never visit.<\/li>\n
  9. Construction Jobs<\/strong> – Learn how just about every complicated structure in the world is made and how it never goes right.<\/li>\n
  10. Jobs<\/strong> – If a job hasn’t been explored in the above shows its explained here. Actually, there’s lots of overlap.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    • A. Extreme Engineering<\/li>\n
    • B. It Takes A Thief<\/li>\n
    • C. Man vs Wild<\/li>\n
    • D. MythBusters<\/li>\n
    • E. Dirty Jobs<\/li>\n
    • F. FutureWeapons<\/li>\n
    • G. Surgery Saved My Life<\/li>\n
    • H. Deadliest Catch<\/li>\n
    • I. How It’s Made<\/li>\n
    • J. Stunt Junkies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      \tThere you have it. Every show on Discovery can be referred to as _____ Jobs. Did you figure out my clever game? Here are the answers (highlight to see them): [ H, F, B, C, E, D, G, J, A, I<\/font>]<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I love the Discovery Channel. Why? It’s the only “cable” channel we get in our “basic cable” package. Apparently that package means local programming + spanish channels + paid programming + Discovery Channel. Now that you understand why I’m a self-declared expert on the aforementioned channel, read on to learn more about the diverse programming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-noteworthy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.reams.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}