{"id":4824,"date":"2010-11-28T22:50:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-28T22:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vu2057.freddie.1984.is\/siggimustest\/?p=4824"},"modified":"2022-10-07T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T10:27:21","slug":"brand-new-tv-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/2010\/11\/28\/brand-new-tv-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"brand &#8220;new&#8221; tv, part ii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vu2057.freddie.1984.is\/siggimustest\/2010\/11\/27\/out-with-the-old\/\">&#8220;new&#8221; tv<\/a> is kinda working now<\/p>\n<p>sorta kinda<\/p>\n<p>there was no functioning remote, so there was no way to search for channels<\/p>\n<p>a flick through revealed four or five channels, two of them with actual proper sound and not just white noise<\/p>\n<p>those two are sky sports 2 &amp; itv 2. so this weekend was x-factor weekend. probably last week&#8217;s stuff on repeat, not that it makes much difference if you didn&#8217;t watch it the first time<\/p>\n<p>managed to get some actual tv by recommissioning an ancient vcr that has spent the past 6 years or so taking up space &amp; showing incorrect time<\/p>\n<p>no remote for that thing either, but you can (with difficulty) search for channels and such without one<\/p>\n<p>yay!<\/p>\n<p>unfortunately, a long long time ago, the makers of the vcr decided it would be real clever to include a feature that kills the thing if you don&#8217;t use it for 5 mins. you know, puts it to sleep, to save electricity and whatnot<\/p>\n<p>not insurmountable in itself when you have a fancy remote &amp; can remotely poke it back to life, from the relative comfort of your greenish, if aging, couch<\/p>\n<p>but &#8230; well, at least we&#8217;re getting more exercise<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vu2057.freddie.1984.is\/siggimustest\/2010\/11\/27\/out-with-the-old\/\">(part i of &#8220;new&#8221; tv saga)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;new&#8221; tv is kinda working now sorta kinda there was no functioning remote, so there was no way to search for channels a flick through revealed four or five channels, two of them with actual proper sound and not just white noise those two are sky sports 2 &amp; itv 2. so this weekend was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[67,69,72],"class_list":["post-4824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pics","tag-life","tag-rant","tag-watching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcQPg2-1fO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9198,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4824\/revisions\/9198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}