{"id":263,"date":"2003-04-20T00:30:46","date_gmt":"2003-04-20T00:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=263"},"modified":"2003-04-20T00:30:46","modified_gmt":"2003-04-20T00:30:46","slug":"take-a-break-from-the-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/04\/20\/take-a-break-from-the-tube\/","title":{"rendered":"Take A Break From The Tube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This coming week is <a title=\"Adbusters: TV Turnoff Week\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adbusters.org\/campaigns\/tvturnoff\/\">TV Turnoff Week<\/a>.  Take a break from the onslaught. You just might find you like it.<br \/>\nIf your boob tube isn&#8217;t a behemoth, stick it in the closet or basement and put a plant in its place. If it&#8217;s more of the monster-size variety, cover it with that nice shawl your grandmother knitted. At the very least, hide the remote &#8212; it&#8217;s amazing what&#8217;ll happen when you can&#8217;t channel surf without moving your fat ass off the couch.<br \/>\nBonus points for the best idea on how to spend one&#8217;s time away from the tube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This coming week is TV Turnoff Week. Take a break from the onslaught. You just might find you like it. If your boob tube isn&#8217;t a behemoth, stick it in the closet or basement and put a plant in its place. If it&#8217;s more of the monster-size variety, cover it with that nice shawl your&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2003\/04\/20\/take-a-break-from-the-tube\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Take A Break From The Tube<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-journalism-blogs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-4f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}