{"id":1289,"date":"2007-04-30T23:18:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T06:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2007-04-30T23:18:49","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T06:18:49","slug":"i-wonder-if-i-should-cancel-my-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1289","title":{"rendered":"I wonder if I should cancel my cable."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do love TV, but I might do other things if I didn&#8217;t have it. Maybe I should just cut back to the network channels. I live in a neighborhood where we can&#8217;t get TV without cable and when I was a kid we just had the local networks on our cable TV. I suppose there are worse things I could do with my time and I&#8217;d rather not find out what those things are. For example, there&#8217;s a new ham radio I want, but the last time I was on the radio trying to talk any distance was 2003? It&#8217;s been so long that I&#8217;ve forgotten most of my Morse code.<\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking of all the junk my dad has and some people tell me I should keep it to remember him by. But do I really need a thousand keychains to remember my dad by? I think I&#8217;m going to put a bunch of them on ebay or something. Better than just trying to melt them to create one giant key chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do love TV, but I might do other things if I didn&#8217;t have it. Maybe I should just cut back to the network channels. I live in a neighborhood where we can&#8217;t get TV without cable and when I was a kid we just had the local networks on our cable TV. I suppose there are worse things I could do with my time and I&#8217;d rather not find out what those things are. For example, there&#8217;s a new ham radio I want, but the last time I was on the radio trying to talk any distance was 2003? It&#8217;s been so long that I&#8217;ve forgotten most of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1289\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I wonder if I should cancel my cable.<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}