{"id":259,"date":"2003-06-27T11:53:31","date_gmt":"2003-06-27T16:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2003\/06\/27\/105672921166838442\/"},"modified":"2003-06-27T11:53:31","modified_gmt":"2003-06-27T16:53:31","slug":"105672921166838442","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/27\/105672921166838442\/","title":{"rendered":"105672921166838442"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TV bad, people good. Right?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/onion3924\/area_man_constantly.html\">Area man constantly mentioning he doesn&rsquo;t own a television.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another great parody from <em>The Onion<\/em> (linked via a comment on the <a href=\"http:\/\/whatdoiknow.org\/archives\/001017.php\">What do I know blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s so funny how we always feel the need to apologize when we talk about something we watched on television. &laquo; Oh, I never really watch it &raquo;, we feel the need to say. Because we know so many people are glued to their tvs, and we know we are not one of them, of course.<\/p>\n<p>TV is okay. TV is not the devil. There&rsquo;s good stuff on tv. Sometimes even great stuff (ER, documentaries, ID Maison &#8211; this last one is a plug for the tv show I worked for and which is still airing, by the way). You just have to know how to find the good stuff, and you have to know when it&rsquo;s time to turn the tv off. I haven&rsquo;t turned on my tv in over 5 days now (summer is not a good tv season for me). But that&rsquo;s nothing to brag about. Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV bad, people good. Right? Area man constantly mentioning he doesn&rsquo;t own a television. Another great parody from The Onion (linked via a comment on the What do I know blog) It&rsquo;s so funny how we always feel the need to apologize when we talk about something we watched on television. &laquo; Oh, I never&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/27\/105672921166838442\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">105672921166838442<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}