{"id":1203,"date":"2017-09-09T23:58:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T04:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2017-09-09T23:58:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T04:58:49","slug":"not-remotely-time-saving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2017\/09\/09\/not-remotely-time-saving\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Remotely Time-Saving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up really late today, then spent most of the afternoon configuring my Harmony remote for my new TV and home theater receiver. At this point, I have spent more time configuring my universal remote than I have spent using regular remote controls in my entire life. It&#8217;s ridiculously complicated, and needlessly slow to configure the thing, but it sure is cool to be able to control everything with one device, even if it is a bit clunky at times.<\/p>\n<p>Late in the evening, I went to my parents&#8217; house for some eggplant soup and to try and watch\u00a0<em>Con Man<\/em> on SyFy. I didn&#8217;t last too long, because I had forgotten how terrible of an experience television commercials are. The &#8220;episodes&#8221; are only like 10 minutes long, and I couldn&#8217;t even make it through one whole episode before getting multiple commercials.<\/p>\n<p>Ludicrous.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tomorrow, we sail!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up really late today, then spent most of the afternoon configuring my Harmony remote for my new TV and home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}