{"id":4872,"date":"2015-07-15T07:19:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2015-07-16T12:29:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T17:29:50","slug":"television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=4872","title":{"rendered":"Television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Yesterday: 4.8 miles]<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in a hotel again this week, back in Ft. Collins for the 5th time this summer.\u00a0 I have one more trip in August and I will have completed the schedule.<\/p>\n<p>I have been at two different hotels, primarily, and they both have the same television service. Both have had large LCD televisions in the room.\u00a0 I find myself attracted to the Velocity Channel where they have antique cars, fancy cars, people doing restorations, etc.\u00a0 It is interesting but not engrossing.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I went to the Barnes and Nobel and bought three books.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping to pass my time with the books instead of with TV.\u00a0 Somehow it seems more legitimate to read than to just sit and watch. I don&#8217;t really accomplish anything substantial with either!<\/p>\n<p>And the time really does pass quickly with TV.\u00a0 It goes by in half hour chunks, like bailing water out of a boat with a bucket.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t watch much TV at home, not of the scheduled variety.\u00a0 We do watch some Netflix on our own schedule.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a bit of a TV addict, so I am better off in general if I don&#8217;t get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Yesterday: 4.8 miles] I&#8217;m in a hotel again this week, back in Ft. Collins for the 5th time this summer.\u00a0 I have one more trip in August and I will have completed the schedule. I have been at two different hotels, primarily, and they both have the same television service. Both have had large LCD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4874,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions\/4874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}