{"id":10225,"date":"2021-06-04T22:48:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T02:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=10225"},"modified":"2021-06-04T22:48:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T02:48:59","slug":"a-month-without-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/04\/a-month-without-television\/","title":{"rendered":"A month without television"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, just shy of four weeks, actually, and not completely without television because I did have a weekend away in which I immersed myself in <em>Law and Order<\/em>. But it is my most TV-free span since my parents acquired our first set back in 1954.  Even the transatlantic cruise in 2018 had television on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what does a TV-generation guy do when deprived of his daily dose of boob toob? Well&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Read. I have finished several books.<\/li><li>Organize his DVDs and CDs.  This can take a long time since I feel obliged to view\/listen to any that I am considering discarding.<\/li><li>Watch all James Bond movies (thanks, Ray!).<\/li><li>Learn how to connect the television to my T-Mobile router so that I can watch shows on Netflix.<\/li><li>Watch the 7 seasons of <em>Mission Impossible<\/em> (the TV series, not those awful Tom Cruise movies).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I haven&#8217;t finished the <em>Mission Impossible<\/em> series yet (46 DVDs) but I am working on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, just shy of four weeks, actually, and not completely without television because I did have a weekend away in which I immersed myself in Law and Order. But it is my most TV-free span since my parents acquired our first set back in 1954. Even the transatlantic cruise in 2018 had television on board. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/04\/a-month-without-television\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rv-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2EV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10226,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10225\/revisions\/10226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}