{"id":43855,"date":"2014-07-25T22:17:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T04:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/baywatch.html"},"modified":"2014-07-29T13:20:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T19:20:04","slug":"baywatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/baywatch.html","title":{"rendered":"Baywatch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Ran across this video unexpectedly on YouTube. I was never a regular &quot;Baywatch&quot; watcher, though I ended up through various courses seeing more episodes than was probably healthy for me. \u00a0The intro sequence here is pure 90s pop culture gold, from the music, to the glamour reveals of hardbodied guys and bathing beauty girls, to the incidental (but nicely shot) rescue craft scenes.<\/p>\n<p>A special call-out (since I looked him up) to Michael Newman, the only &quot;Baywatch&quot; regular who was an actual lifeguard, \u00a0and who was a show regular (and consultant) (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Newman_%28lifeguard%29\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Newman_(lifeguard)<\/a> ).\u00a0\ufeff<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-video'><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IuYrRebvFHc' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/9EAVXsyWcpZ' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ran across this video unexpectedly on YouTube. I was never a regular &quot;Baywatch&quot; watcher, though I ended up through various courses seeing more episodes than was probably healthy for me. \u00a0The intro sequence here is pure 90s pop culture gold, from the music, to the glamour reveals of hardbodied guys and bathing beauty girls, to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/baywatch.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baywatch!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[106,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6991,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/16\/surely_this_is.html","url_meta":{"origin":43855,"position":0},"title":"Surely this is another sign of the Apocalypse &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 16-Nov-04 4:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Baywatch: the Movie. 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