{"id":2046,"date":"2012-01-13T23:15:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T03:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2014-08-01T20:39:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T00:39:14","slug":"a-vast-wasteland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/?p=2046","title":{"rendered":"A Vast Wasteland"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have what Debbie and I call at our house ‘Amish TV.’ That is, free broadcast TV. So when I get a night in a hotel with cable TV I get dizzily excited by all the options. Tonight with all the events over at the National No-Till Conference I started channel surfing through all the options. And they were:<\/p>\n

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  1. Hockey (Are we in Canada?)<\/li>\n
  2. People turning a mattress over (MTV. Not accompanied by music. I guess MTV has nothing to with music these days.)<\/li>\n
  3. Commercial<\/li>\n
  4. Talking Head (Mitt Romney is rich, can you imagine?)<\/li>\n
  5. Wipeout<\/li>\n
  6. I Love Raymond rerun<\/li>\n
  7. Kevin Hart (comedy?)<\/li>\n
  8. B&W movie about Napoleon (Really)<\/li>\n
  9. George Lopez rerun<\/li>\n
  10. A Spanish language channel (grouped next George Lopez reruns, I get it)<\/li>\n
  11. A Rock movie (Rock the ‘actor’, not the music)<\/li>\n
  12. Locked inside an abandoned beach house (I have no idea why)<\/li>\n
  13. A ‘House’ marathon (Hugh Laurie, not Norm Abrams)<\/li>\n
  14. King of the Hill (the only thing I’d watch so far)<\/li>\n
  15. Commercial<\/li>\n
  16. Pretty in Pink (Molly Ringwald, so cute)<\/li>\n
  17. Commercial<\/li>\n
  18. Little House on the Prairie reruns<\/li>\n
  19. Commercial<\/li>\n
  20. BET (I have no idea what this was showing)<\/li>\n
  21. Commercial<\/li>\n
  22. Bizarre game show<\/li>\n
  23. I have no idea what this was, other than I couldn’t press the channel button quick enough. Disney XD.<\/li>\n
  24. Weather<\/li>\n
  25. Commercial<\/li>\n
  26. Made for TV movie<\/li>\n
  27. Commercial<\/li>\n
  28. Say Yes to the Dress (A Bridezilla reality show?)<\/li>\n
  29. Cuba Gooding on Obama. (An MLK day special is the only explanation I can offer for this)<\/li>\n
  30. Flying Wild Alaska<\/li>\n
  31. America’s Most Wanted (the show even Fox didn’t want)<\/li>\n
  32. Commercial<\/li>\n
  33. Commercial<\/li>\n
  34. Commercial<\/li>\n
  35. Ax Men (loggers working hard)<\/li>\n
  36. Commercial<\/li>\n
  37. Golf (Live, they said. Bonus!)<\/li>\n
  38. Commercial<\/li>\n
  39. Talking heads yelling at one another<\/li>\n
  40. Commercial<\/li>\n
  41. Made for TV movie<\/li>\n
  42. House of Payne (a holy roller series?)<\/li>\n
  43. Fox ‘News’<\/li>\n
  44. Cialis commercial. (seek immediate medical attention if watching this commercial for more than 4 hours.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    People pay money for this?<\/p>\n

    Fortunately I brought plenty of books with me. (On paper, not a Kindle, so quaint.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    You’d pay money for this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curmudgeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chuckzumbrun.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}