{"id":383,"date":"2009-08-10T18:34:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T00:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atomon.org\/?p=383"},"modified":"2009-08-10T18:34:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T00:34:37","slug":"reports-of-tvs-death-greatly-exaggerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Reports of TV&#8217;s Death Somewhat Exaggerated&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TV has not died, but it is incredibly diminished.  We have gone from more channels than I could count including all the HBOs and all the Showtimes to Fox, ABC, CBS, CW (the CW?), NBC and PBS.  More than that, we have given up the DVR.<\/p>\n<p>The DVR promised to let me watch TV on my schedule.  It was going to relegate the shows I like to my downtime, and never again would tv cut into my rich and full non-tv life. <\/p>\n<p>In reality it allowed me to watch tv while recording something else that I would watch while recording something else.  It is delicious and evil, and Wednesday I give it back.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;so that I can realize once again that I don&#8217;t have a rich, full, non-tv life.  Maybe this time I&#8217;ll get one.  If not the cable company will always give it back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TV has not died, but it is incredibly diminished. We have gone from more channels than I could count including all the HBOs and all the Showtimes to Fox, ABC, CBS, CW (the CW?), NBC and PBS. More than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/?p=383\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Tie6-6b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.patrickrhett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}