{"id":950,"date":"2011-02-22T07:49:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T13:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=950"},"modified":"2011-02-22T07:49:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T13:49:52","slug":"cutting-the-cord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/cutting-the-cord\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting the Cord?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I am on my kick of turning off our cable TV.\u00a0 That may be a bit drastic, but I am truly tired of the ridiculous monthly bill just so I can sit on the couch and click through countless channels of nothing.\u00a0 Every now and then I will admit it does come in handy though, and those are the times I cannot decide if I can do without.\u00a0 Case in point, Saturday evening when I needed to kill some time until my work started at midnight.\u00a0 I started clicking around and found a Clint Eastwood marathon;\u00a0 Back-to-back-to-back westerns.\u00a0 Problem solved.\u00a0 More frequent still are the sporting events I want to watch.\u00a0 Most of those could probably be watched for free though, if I could just figure out how to run the big antenna in our attic down to the TV&#8217;s.\u00a0 Or of course I could walk down to the Brooksider and sponge one of their 40 televisions, although the likelihood of me going down there to watch an 8:00 p.m. game is pretty remote.\u00a0 I played around last night and got <a title=\"Hulu\" href=\"http:\/\/hulu.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hulu<\/a> running on both the televisions, so that covers a lot of the series that Donette likes to watch.\u00a0 We can watch <a title=\"netflix\" href=\"http:\/\/netflix.com\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> on both too, although their &#8220;on demand&#8221; selection is rather weak.\u00a0 We shall see what the next few weeks bring.\u00a0 We&#8217;re going to run in a &#8220;Netflix-Hulu-Boxee-Cable&#8221; hybrid mode for a while and then re-assess the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again I am on my kick of turning off our cable TV.\u00a0 That may be a bit drastic, but I am truly tired of the ridiculous monthly bill just so I can sit on the couch and click through countless channels of nothing.\u00a0 Every now and then I will admit it does come in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}