{"id":1012,"date":"2005-10-25T19:32:06","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T19:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2005-10-25T19:32:06","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T19:32:06","slug":"idiot_box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"Idiot Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lifehacker<\/a> is a kind of self-improvement blog for geeks. It offers little bits of advice on things like how to do your own podcast or where to find an especially useful Firefox extension. About a week ago, they featured a clever article distinguishing between television and television programs<\/a>. In summary, plopping yourself in front of the television and randomly flipping through channels is bad. Using your television as a monitor for specific content (whether a DVD or a TiVo’d program stripped of ads) is okay. Which is a relief, considering that the latter describes how I use my own television. But I do need to get out of the habit of having it on as I get ready in the morning. There’s something about starting your day watching various items of bad news scroll across the bottom of a screen as the pretty anchorwoman chirps happily about the latest technology fad that is jarringly absurd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lifehacker is a kind of self-improvement blog for geeks. It offers little bits of advice on things like how to do your own podcast or where to find an especially useful Firefox extension. About a week ago, they featured a clever article distinguishing between television and television programs. In summary, plopping yourself in front of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-gk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}