{"id":401,"date":"2009-01-05T23:03:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T03:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=401"},"modified":"2009-01-05T23:03:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T03:03:31","slug":"surfing-the-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2009\/01\/surfing-the-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfing the Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-402\" title=\"Satellite\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/id_pi_schne_tv_ap_001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" \/>The clever folks over at <em>The Smart Set<\/em> have just posted my essay on watching TV in Jordan, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thesmartset.com\/article\/article01050901.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Surfing the Satellite<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What if more Americans got this madness on their sets, rather than the endless rolling plains of midwestern accents (dotted by the occasional Telemundo) on spin-off networks of spin-off networks? There isn\u2019t much that molds us more than channel-surfing. The average home has more television sets than people, and each person watches close to four and a half hours a day. That\u2019s more than 13 years out of a 71-year lifetime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While you&#8217;re there, make sure to check out the excellent essays by <em>Smart Set<\/em> regular Morgan Meis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-402\" title=\"Satellite\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/id_pi_schne_tv_ap_001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" \/>The clever folks over at <em>The Smart Set<\/em> have just posted my essay on watching TV in Jordan, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thesmartset.com\/article\/article01050901.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Surfing the Satellite<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What if more Americans got this madness on their sets, rather than the endless rolling plains of midwestern accents (dotted by the occasional Telemundo) on spin-off networks of spin-off networks? There isn\u2019t much that molds us more than channel-surfing. The average home has more television sets than people, and each person watches close to four and a half hours a day. That\u2019s more than 13 years out of a 71-year lifetime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While you&#8217;re there, make sure to check out the excellent essays by <em>Smart Set<\/em> regular Morgan Meis.<\/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":[86,80,50,75],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-celebrity","tag-empathy","tag-technology","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}