{"id":16238,"date":"2012-08-20T15:40:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T19:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16238"},"modified":"2012-08-20T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T19:40:22","slug":"nbc-says-al-roker-quip-wasnt-about-ann-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16238","title":{"rendered":"NBC Says Al Roker Quip Wasn\u2019t About Ann Curry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>\u201cToday\u201d<\/em> show says <strong>Al Roker<\/strong> and <strong>Matt Lauer<\/strong> have jokingly bantered about throwing someone \u201cunder the bus\u201d at least 27 times over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Why does that matter? Because the most recent time <strong>Roker<\/strong> said it, on Thursday, it was widely interpreted as a dig against his own show for the way it removed co-host <strong>Ann Curry<\/strong> less than two months ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lauer<\/strong> was speaking with members of the U.S. women\u2019s rowing team and its tradition of throwing the coxswain in the water after winning a race, and he joked that in New York it would mean a toss into the Hudson River. <strong>Roker<\/strong> said it was different than <em>\u201cToday\u201d<\/em> tradition, \u201cwhich is to throw one of us under the bus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured: <em>&#8216;Today&#8217;<\/em> co-anchors Al Roker, Savannah Guthrie and Matt Lauer host NBC&#8217;s &#8216;Today&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cToday\u201d show says Al Roker and Matt Lauer have jokingly bantered about throwing someone \u201cunder the bus\u201d at least 27 times over the past two years. Why does that matter? Because the most recent time Roker said it, on Thursday, it was widely interpreted as a dig against his own show for the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}