{"id":68,"date":"2003-07-02T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-02T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2018-08-02T16:21:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T21:21:04","slug":"68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/02\/68\/","title":{"rendered":"We Gave Up On Cable Too Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dropped off our digital cable box on Monday (and then dropped off, reluctantly, the remote Monday afternoon) after my <a href=\"http:\/\/angelweaving.blogspot.com\" target=\"new\">beautiful wife<\/a> and I determined the cost of &#8220;content&#8221; piped to a television most likely turned off exceeded our complete monthly <b><i>electricity<\/i><\/b> bill.  We decided we could do without television and digital commercialless music.  We might have thought too soon.<\/p>\n<p>We made that rash decision before Rascall Flatts decided they would put nudity in their next video and before Country Music Television (CMT) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/entertainment\/news\/archives\/03\/07\/35346306.shtml?Element_ID=35346306\" target=\"new\">decided they would play it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If only I had known you could see <b><i>naked people<\/b><\/i> on cable television!  Having the ability to see the human form&#8211;well, okay, the <i>female<\/i> form&#8211; on cable television any time I want is worth <b>$1100<\/b> a year!<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\" target=\"new\">Fark<\/a> for the pointer.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dropped off our digital cable box on Monday (and then dropped off, reluctantly, the remote Monday afternoon) after my beautiful wife and I determined the cost of &#8220;content&#8221; piped to a television most likely turned off exceeded our complete monthly electricity bill. We decided we could do without television and digital commercialless music. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21457,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/21457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}