{"id":56,"date":"2002-10-17T16:20:26","date_gmt":"2002-10-17T21:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2002\/10\/17\/85573650\/"},"modified":"2002-10-17T16:20:26","modified_gmt":"2002-10-17T21:20:26","slug":"85573650","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2002\/10\/17\/85573650\/","title":{"rendered":"85573650"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Aaarrggghh!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/images\/set_medium.jpg\"><IMG SRC=\"\/blog\/images\/set_small.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Television set- click to enlarge\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some days, I just hate technology. I&rsquo;m the tech reporter for a weekly <a href=\"http:\/\/emission.tva.ca\/17-emission.shtml\">television show<\/a> which is filmed &laquo; live to tape &raquo; (it&rsquo;s not live, but we try to put it all on tape in one take). We had everything ready to show an Easter Egg section from a DVD movie, and we rehearsed a couple of times to make sure that the cameras would switch from a Web site on my computer screen to a DVD playing on a big plasma screen behind me. But once the cameras were rolling for real, the DVD refused to cooperate and kept playing the movie instead of giving me the main menu. I pressed &laquo; menu &raquo;, &laquo; menu &raquo;, &laquo; menu &raquo;, without any success. And of course, we were too much in a hurry to roll another take. So if you see a girl on canadian television who turns red from frustration and looks like an idiot while she&rsquo;s helplessly holding a DVD remote, please be forgiving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaarrggghh! Some days, I just hate technology. I&rsquo;m the tech reporter for a weekly television show which is filmed &laquo; live to tape &raquo; (it&rsquo;s not live, but we try to put it all on tape in one take). We had everything ready to show an Easter Egg section from a DVD movie, and we&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2002\/10\/17\/85573650\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">85573650<\/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\/56"}],"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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}