{"id":1742,"date":"2007-11-02T22:31:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T22:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2007-11-02T22:31:54","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T22:31:54","slug":"going_dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"Going Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to prepare myself for the imminent loss of fresh <i>Daily Show<\/i> and <i>Colbert Report<\/i> material as a result of the looming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-strike3nov03,0,2443246.story?coll=la-home-center\">writers&#8217; strike<\/a>. Other sources of satire will have to do; maybe it&#8217;s time to become a regular reader of The Onion again. And perhaps the loss of scripted television might compel me to get through my geometrically expanding reading pile. As a fellow union worker, my sympathies are with the writers. If I must go without new eps of <i>The Office<\/i> in order to ensure that my working brothers and sisters get what&#8217;s owed them, then that&#8217;s a sacrifice I&#8217;m willing to make. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to prepare myself for the imminent loss of fresh Daily Show and Colbert Report material as a result of the looming writers&#8217; strike. Other sources of satire will have to do; maybe it&#8217;s time to become a regular reader of The Onion again. And perhaps the loss of scripted television might compel me <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1742' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-1742","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-s6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","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=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}