{"id":363,"date":"2005-04-25T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2005-04-25T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-25T21:02:00","slug":"go-ahead-turn-it-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Go ahead &#8212; turn it on."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvturnoff.org\/index.htm\">TV-Turnoff Week<\/a> everybody.  Every minute you&#8217;re not watching TV is a minute you&#8217;re paying for and not using, so give the cable company what they want.  While you&#8217;re at it, go buy dinner and throw it out the window of your car.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea why TV gets such a bad rap.  You know what people did with their free time before TV?  Sat on the porch and watched nothing go by.  Sat and watched the fireplace.  It&#8217;s not as if the pre-TV era was a golden age of physical activity and intellectual stimulation which was replaced by zombiism because we are all too dumb to turn away from a glowing light.  People have always sat on their asses, and will continue to do so until Judgement.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/04\/25\/tv.turnoff.week.ap\/index.html\">the CNN.com story<\/a> on TV-Turnoff Week is the content-sensitive ad bar that points you to places to buy televisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy TV-Turnoff Week everybody. Every minute you&#8217;re not watching TV is a minute you&#8217;re paying for and not using, so give the cable company what they want. While you&#8217;re at it, go buy dinner and throw it out the window of your car. I have no idea why TV gets such a bad rap. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}