{"id":146,"date":"2009-03-31T11:04:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T15:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2009-03-31T11:05:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T15:05:20","slug":"free-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Free at last!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_145\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145\" title=\"brokentv1-main_fulljpg\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/brokentv1-main_fulljpg.jpeg\" alt=\"Destroy your TV\" width=\"400\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/brokentv1-main_fulljpg.jpeg 400w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/brokentv1-main_fulljpg-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Destroy your TV<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We finally cancelled television at our house.  What a relief.  We never watch it.  Programming is 99.99999% unwatchable.  Everything is geared toward the lowest common denominator.  The commercials are louder than the actual program.  The ads for pharmaceuticals all make me feel like I have whatever dread disease is being described.  Reality TV is not real.  I don&#8217;t want my MTV.  Anything that is worth watching can be seen via computer and internet.<\/p>\n<p>Now, baseball is a different story.  I have undying love for the Phillies under the worst of circumstances, but now, they are the defendning champions and they look like they could do some damage again in &#8217;09.  But you know what, I don&#8217;t need to sit and watch these games on TV.  I have always loved listening to Phillies games on the radio and last year, even in the thick of a title hunt, we still preferred the radio.  If they make the playoffs and we need to see coverage on the idiot box, we can head down to the local pub.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s that.  Goodbye Comcast.  Don&#8217;t let the door hit you in the but on your way out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We finally cancelled television at our house. What a relief. We never watch it. Programming is 99.99999% unwatchable. Everything is geared toward the lowest common denominator. The commercials are louder than the actual program. The ads for pharmaceuticals all make &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=146\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41],"tags":[47,222,1483,224,1493,221],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}