{"id":529,"date":"2005-05-02T14:02:14","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T21:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?p=529"},"modified":"2008-04-23T14:04:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T21:04:10","slug":"tv-turnoff-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2005\/05\/02\/tv-turnoff-week\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Turnoff Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original version of Godzilla, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/05\/01\/opinion\/01sun3.html?ex=1115524800&amp;en=224d0b77524c9583&amp;ei=5070&amp;oref=login\" target=\"_blank\">stripped                   of political context, for its initial release in the United                   States.<\/a> Forgetting political context, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/05\/01\/opinion\/01rich.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">conservatives                   learn to love South Park<\/a>?<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>This                         is the sad fate of the bastard machine: to be blamed                         for everything. &#8220;Oh, my television casts such a                         spell over me that I&#8217;m unable to do anything about it.                         I&#8217;m a helpless victim! For God&#8217;s sake, will someone come                         to my house and unplug it?&#8221; Where&#8217;s the responsibility                         here? Why can&#8217;t people own up to their faults, their                         shortcomings? It&#8217;s the smoking-gave-me-cancer or McDonald&#8217;s-made-me-fat                         argument.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2005\/04\/27\/DDGDHCENU21.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">Tim                             Goodman of the SF Chronicle offers another take on                             TV Turnoff Week<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is America slipping back into the Dark Ages? <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/news\/feature\/2005\/04\/30\/dawkins\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yes,                   says a famous atheist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conceivemagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">literal                   and self-explanatory animation<\/a> of the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2005\/05\/02\/tv-turnoff-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original version of Godzilla, stripped of political context, for its initial release in the United States. Forgetting political context, conservatives learn to love South Park? This is the sad fate of the bastard machine: to be blamed for everything. &#8220;Oh, my television casts such a spell over me that I&#8217;m unable to do anything &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2005\/05\/02\/tv-turnoff-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TV Turnoff Week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2005\/05\/02\/tv-turnoff-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}