{"id":3397,"date":"2009-08-13T18:18:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T23:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2009-08-13T18:18:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T23:18:37","slug":"the-vast-wasteland-even-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3397","title":{"rendered":"The Vast Wasteland, Even Bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My TV died last night, right in the middle of <em>The Daily Show<\/em> (the 8:00 repeat).  One minute Jon Stewart was there, the next, he wasn&#8217;t.  I&#8217;m not lamenting the loss of the TV all that much \u2014 it was a mediocre set I got 5 years ago (I had to check my receipts; it seemed more recent, but it was June of &#8217;04) when my last set died.<\/p>\n<p>The one thing I have demanded in each TV is that it be bigger than the previous one.  The 26&#8243; set I got after I graduated college gave way to a 29&#8243; set purchased in Canada during my years of hiding, to this recently-deceased 32&#8243; set, a cheap transitional CRT TV I got because I could not afford an HD set; plasmas were too expensive and \u00fcber-large LCDs were in their infancy.  Now, I am ready to take the 40&#8243; HD plunge.   Right in time for football season.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My TV died last night, right in the middle of The Daily Show (the 8:00 repeat). One minute Jon Stewart was there, the next, he wasn&#8217;t. I&#8217;m not lamenting the loss of the TV all that much \u2014 it was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3397\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-tmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}