{"id":2883,"date":"2005-04-26T10:52:47","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T14:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2010-07-12T17:55:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T21:55:29","slug":"tv-turnoff-jackassery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2883","title":{"rendered":"TV Turnoff Jackassery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asmallvictory.net\/archives\/008832.html\">Michele posts her yearly rant about TV Turnoff Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s just a snippet, but you have to read the whole thing &#8211; it&#8217;s so funny.  She posts it every year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We love tv. And no, I am not going to sit here and pretend that all the tv we watch is educational. Sure, we watch the Discovery Channel and the History Channel and National Geographic TV. We love that stuff. But we also watch cartoons and sitcoms and the adults in this house watch late night softcore porn on Cinemax and violent movies and infomercials. And sports. We watch a whole lot of sports.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t tell me that tv keeps us from reading. We are all readers. We read every single night. Sometimes together, sometimes alone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s just BEAUTIFUL that I am finally hooked up with cable television, just in time for TV Turnoff Week.<\/p>\n<p>I watch <i>The Surreal Life<\/i> with an almost frightening regularity.  I have been gorging myself on <i>West Wing<\/i> reruns.  I also have dipped my toes into the lunatic world of <i>Showdog Moms and Dads<\/i>.  I love it all.  The good, the bad, the trashy.  Don&#8217;t give me your sanctimonious &#8220;all we ever watch is PBS&#8221; bull shite.  Or &#8211; fine!!  Only watch PBS, but don&#8217;t act so superior about it!<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all celebrate TV Turn-On Week!  I know I am!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michele posts her yearly rant about TV Turnoff Week. Here&#8217;s just a snippet, but you have to read the whole thing &#8211; it&#8217;s so funny. She posts it every year: We love tv. And no, I am not going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2883\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883"}],"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=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18565,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/18565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}