{"id":183,"date":"2008-02-18T14:19:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T18:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2008-02-18T14:19:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T18:19:44","slug":"robert-irvines-resume-improbable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/18\/robert-irvines-resume-improbable\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Irvine&#8217;s Resume Improbable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of longtime reader Chris L. comes a link to a story in the <i>St. Petersburg Times<\/i> about Food Network star Robert Irvine, who appears to have <a href=http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2008\/02\/17\/Southpinellas\/TV_chef_spiced_up_his.shtml>fabricated parts of his resume<\/a> and whose plans for a pair of big-time St. Petersburg restaurants are rapidly falling apart. Good work by the team that worked on this piece, although I would have liked to have seen some comments from the Food Network people (or at least the obligatory &#8220;no comment&#8221;). I&#8217;ve emailed the writer to ask if he reached anyone at FN on this topic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: The article&#8217;s main writer, Ben Montgomery, told me that Food Network did not respond to his requests for comment, and that their food\/dining blogger has also been trying to get a comment. You can see an update to the story <a href=http:\/\/blogs.tampabay.com\/dining\/2008\/02\/taking-the-cake.html>related to the Princess Di wedding cake lie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5:24 pm EST update: <\/strong> Ben sent me a link to a statement from a FN spokesperson over on <a href=http:\/\/blogs.tampabay.com\/dining\/2008\/02\/food-network-co.html>the Mouth of Tampa Bay blog<\/a> regarding Irvine. The gist seems to be that they&#8217;re distancing themselves from Irvine already.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of longtime reader Chris L. comes a link to a story in the St. Petersburg Times about Food Network star Robert Irvine, who appears to have fabricated parts of his resume and whose plans for a pair of big-time St. Petersburg restaurants are rapidly falling apart. Good work by the team that worked on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[130,137,150],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-media","tag-food-network","tag-frauds","tag-goofs","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}