{"id":1283,"date":"2003-07-28T10:33:09","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T15:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2003\/07\/28\/1283\/"},"modified":"2003-07-28T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2003-07-28T15:33:09","slug":"1283","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2003\/07\/28\/1283\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m contemplating the purchase of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\/catalog\/product.gsp?product_id=2123650&#038;cat=4560&#038;type=19&#038;dept=3944&#038;path=0%3A3944%3A3996%3A4560\">27-inch television<\/a>.  Why?  It&#8217;s not like I ever watch TV.  I&#8217;ve watched maybe three hours of actual TV all summer, plus I had it on one of those music channels for an hour once.  I have a small-but-select movie collection, but I don&#8217;t watch those much either.<\/p>\n<p>Yet I&#8217;m probably going to get this thing.  My budget is $200, and with the Wal-Mart gift certificate I got from one of my uncles at graduation, that one comes in just under the line.  Plus it&#8217;s flat-screen, which I also generally don&#8217;t care about.  Again, why am I doing this?<\/p>\n<p>Because a big, flat screen allows you to more effectively engage in four-player Halo.  That&#8217;s really the only reason.<\/p>\n<p>Man, I hope Mom forgets to check this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m contemplating the purchase of a 27-inch television. Why? It&#8217;s not like I ever watch TV. I&#8217;ve watched maybe three hours of actual TV all summer, plus I had it on one of those music channels for an hour once. I have a small-but-select movie collection, but I don&#8217;t watch those much either. Yet I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}