{"id":54,"date":"2007-07-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/2007\/07\/24\/one-more-reason-i-hate-tv\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T12:00:00","slug":"one-more-reason-i-hate-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"one more reason i hate tv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ok, i&#8217;m (almost) willing to accept that, since i have an HDTV, and most of the programming on cable is not yet shown in high-def, i have to deal with things like the stupid banners stations put across the bottom of the screen to tell me about some stupid new show coming up next being 1\/3 of the entire screen and covering things i actually may want to see (like subtitles in non-english movies for example&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>but there&#8217;s a new &#8220;feature&#8221; of these banner ads being used that is simply not ok. specifically, sound effects.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m sorry, but when i am attempting to watch a show, it is simply not acceptable to have a banner pop up in the corner of the screen and start making destructo-electric noises all over the place, making it so that i am unable to hear the dialogue going on.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m not sure whom to hate more, the tv executives for giving this interruption the go-ahead, or the advertising flunkies that came up with the idea in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>accordingly, i hate them both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ok, i&#8217;m (almost) willing to accept that, since i have an HDTV, and most of the programming on cable&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,60],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-rambling","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}