{"id":108542,"date":"2003-04-24T09:33:34","date_gmt":"2003-04-24T13:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108542"},"modified":"2015-10-18T17:35:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T21:35:30","slug":"tv-turnoff-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108542","title":{"rendered":"TV Turnoff Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I refuse to stop watching television. <\/p>\n<p>I will not be told what to do. <\/p>\n<p>I still read books. <\/p>\n<p>I read every day, I write every day, and I also watch TV every day. <\/p>\n<p>I watch Six Feet Under. (The last line of the last episode: &#8220;There&#8217;s one thing I forgot to tell you about Petrarch. He started the Renaissance&#8221; was &#8230; so damn good.)<br \/>\nI watch Animal Planet. I love Animal Planet. (Last night, I saw a thing on a tiger family. Gorgeous animals, love them.)<br \/>\nI watch my cousin Mike&#8217;s show &#8220;Yes Dear&#8221; on CBS, every Monday night.<br \/>\nI watched &#8220;The Bachelor&#8221; last night. (That poor girl who didn&#8217;t get a rose and was weeping to the camera: &#8220;I have nothing left. I gave everything I had to this experience and I have nothing left.&#8221; Woah, girl. Get a grip.)<br \/>\nI watched the HBO documentary on Crank (and had nightmares the following night &#8211; woke up with all of my sheets kicked off the bed. I must have been thrashing about like a lunatic).<br \/>\nI watch the news every night, switching back and forth between channels.<br \/>\nOccasionally I check MTV or VH1 to see if there is anything having to do with Eminem being shown.<br \/>\nI watched a little bit of &#8220;Affliction&#8221; on IFC. Nick Nolte is staggering &#8230; Jesus. But the movie is almost unwatchable, it&#8217;s so painful.<br \/>\nI will be watching ER tonight. <\/p>\n<p>All is right with the world. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quote from TV Turnoff Week page: &#8220;MTV saw our simple, quarter-minute clip and gave us a flat out &#8216;No.&#8217; How&#8217;s that for free speech from a station with attitude?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>MTV said No to the ad. <em>That is MTV practicing IT&#8217;S first amendment rights.<\/em> When will these boneheads get that free speech goes both ways? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I refuse to stop watching television. I will not be told what to do. I still read books. I read every day, I write every day, and I also watch TV every day. I watch Six Feet Under. (The last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=108542\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108543,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108542\/revisions\/108543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}