{"id":1543,"date":"2007-04-10T21:06:16","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T21:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2007-04-10T21:06:16","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T21:06:16","slug":"kaput","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"Kaput"},"content":{"rendered":"

My trusty universal remote–the kind that can tame an entire entertainment system and creates an unholy bond with its unsuspecting owner–has died. My choices are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Cruise eBay for a replacement <\/li>\n
  2. Dig out the four or five original remotes and give myself a migraine every time I have to walk my nurse through the multiple steps necessary to watch an episode of The Daily Show <\/li>\n
  3. See how long I can resist the siren call of television and thus prove to myself that I’m not a slave to pop culture. And no, I don’t know why there’s an eBay window open in my browser. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My trusty universal remote–the kind that can tame an entire entertainment system and creates an unholy bond with its unsuspecting owner–has died. My choices are: Cruise eBay for a replacement Dig out the four or five original remotes and give myself a migraine every time I have to walk my nurse through the multiple steps […]<\/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-1543","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\/s9Iwau-kaput","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","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=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}