{"id":359046,"date":"2010-02-24T16:36:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T21:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=94309"},"modified":"2010-02-24T16:36:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T21:36:40","slug":"letterman-cans-vacation-to-compete-with-leno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/359046","title":{"rendered":"Letterman Cans Vacation To Compete With Leno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/112527_jay-leno-oprah-winfrey-and-david-letterman-in-their-super-bowl-spot-for-the-late-show-500x357.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Jay Leno David Letterman Oprah Super Bowl Ad 2010\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-92107\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When Jay Leno resumes his post as host of <em>The Tonight Show<\/em> next week, he&#8217;ll have some stiff competition from longtime late-night foe David Letterman. Letterman has been tops in the ratings ever since The Peacock unceremoniously ditched Leno in favor of the now unemployed Conan O&#8217;Brien last May. It is an honor the bespectacled staff shagger won&#8217;t be giving up without a fight. <\/p>\n<p>Dave&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/2010\/02\/24\/lettermans-plan-for-lenos-first-week-back-jerry-seinfeld\/\">cancelled his scheduled vacation<\/a> so the <em>Late Show<\/em> can air new programs during Leno&#8217;s first week back on the job.<\/p>\n<p>Leno will return to <em>Tonight<\/em> on March 1st with a star-studded lineup of guests, including singer\/actor Jamie Foxx, Olympian Lindsey Vonn, politician Sarah Palin, and <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oDHGRlmo85RXVtDnS45tlrF0Ocg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oDHGRlmo85RXVtDnS45tlrF0Ocg\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oDHGRlmo85RXVtDnS45tlrF0Ocg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/oDHGRlmo85RXVtDnS45tlrF0Ocg\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jay Leno resumes his post as host of The Tonight Show next week, he&#8217;ll have some stiff competition from longtime late-night foe David Letterman. Letterman has been tops in the ratings ever since The Peacock unceremoniously ditched Leno in favor of the now unemployed Conan O&#8217;Brien last May. It is an honor the bespectacled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}