{"id":964,"date":"2011-09-15T21:15:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T01:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=964"},"modified":"2011-09-15T22:26:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T02:26:06","slug":"man-woman-fairly-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/09\/man-woman-fairly-wild.html","title":{"rendered":"Man, Woman, (Fairly) Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched two episodes of <em>Man, Woman, Wild<\/em> over the weekend and found it to be fairly wild.<\/p>\n<p>It takes some time to suspend your belief or disbelief that a couple, including a former Special Forces survival expert and ex-TV journalist, are in imminent danger as they take on the forces of nature.<\/p>\n<p>If you can just let go, and the situations are pretty compelling, the <strong>Discovery<\/strong> series seems pretty good.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Man, Woman, Wild - EP 3 - Boa Constrictor\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VRXmdR8KlHQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Although the couple (<strong>Mykel Hawke<\/strong> and <strong>Ruth England<\/strong>) would have help if they needed to survive being stranded out at sea in only a small boat or dealing with a fast-moving brush fire they appear to really try to tough things out on their own.<\/p>\n<p>From building mud huts to figuring out how to create filters to make\u00a0 drinking water&#8230;.<em>Man, Woman, Wild<\/em> airs some interesting stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The show even goes to the point of him needing, ahem, &#8220;nursing care&#8221; &#8230; I don&#8217;t care to be more specific than that &#8230; or feasting on an armadillo &#8230; &#8220;good meat&#8221; according to both diners.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds good to me &#8230; I have been waiting for the day I&#8217;ll see shredded armadillo on menus in my local area.<\/p>\n<p>Heck, with ranch or honey mustard &#8230; it all tastes about the same, anyway!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>FOR A LOOK AT THE SPORTS OF THE DAY CHECK OUT: http:\/\/www.heapsgoodstuff.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched two episodes of Man, Woman, Wild over the weekend and found it to be fairly wild. It takes some time to suspend your belief or disbelief that a couple, including a former Special Forces survival expert and ex-TV journalist, are in imminent danger as they take on the forces of nature. If you&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6,10,38,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-opinion","category-reality","category-relationships","category-television"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Man, Woman, (Fairly) Wild - Changing Channels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/09\/man-woman-fairly-wild.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Man, Woman, (Fairly) Wild - Changing Channels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I watched two episodes of Man, Woman, Wild over the weekend and found it to be fairly wild. It takes some time to suspend your belief or disbelief that a couple, including a former Special Forces survival expert and ex-TV journalist, are in imminent danger as they take on the forces of nature. If you&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/09\/man-woman-fairly-wild.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Changing Channels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-09-16T01:15:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-09-16T02:26:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"mattaug\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Man, Woman, (Fairly) Wild - Changing Channels","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/09\/man-woman-fairly-wild.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Man, Woman, (Fairly) Wild - Changing Channels","og_description":"I watched two episodes of Man, Woman, Wild over the weekend and found it to be fairly wild. It takes some time to suspend your belief or disbelief that a couple, including a former Special Forces survival expert and ex-TV journalist, are in imminent danger as they take on the forces of nature. If you&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/09\/man-woman-fairly-wild.html","og_site_name":"Changing Channels","article_published_time":"2011-09-16T01:15:43+00:00","article_modified_time":"2011-09-16T02:26:06+00:00","author":"mattaug","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/09\/man-woman-fairly-wild.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/09\/man-woman-fairly-wild.html","name":"Man, Woman, (Fairly) Wild - Changing Channels","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-09-16T01:15:43+00:00","dateModified":"2011-09-16T02:26:06+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/#\/schema\/person\/53c63c3ad6201c97cca05aeac01f48c5"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/09\/man-woman-fairly-wild.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/09\/man-woman-fairly-wild.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/09\/man-woman-fairly-wild.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Man, Woman, (Fairly) Wild"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/","name":"Changing Channels","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Matt Aug","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/#\/schema\/person\/53c63c3ad6201c97cca05aeac01f48c5","name":"mattaug","description":"I have been in journalism for over to decades ... which makes me, well, old! Seriously, I have been blessed to have worked for publications such as USA Today, Newsday and nfl.com and I am excited to have this opportunity to blog about television for beliefnet.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/author\/mattaug"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}