{"id":56991,"date":"2024-04-26T15:50:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56991"},"modified":"2024-04-26T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T15:50:49","slug":"no-tv-no-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56991","title":{"rendered":"No TV? No big deal!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NUREMBERG, Germany<\/strong> — I have been living in a home for the past few days that has no TV.<\/p>\n

There isn’t one to be found anywhere. You know what? I don’t miss what my Dad used to call the “boob tube” … and he sold them for a living!<\/em><\/p>\n

My friends opened their home to me about 10 days ago. We did watch a film on one of their laptops: “The Post,” starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, about the release of the Pentagon Papers.<\/p>\n

As for the news as presented by TV journalists, well, it has bored me to sleep for too long as it is. Prime-time programming might not be any good, either. Although to be honest, I don’t know what they show on German TV networks. So, I don’t really know what I am missing.<\/p>\n

I am not devoid of news. I sure have plenty of outlets to feed me information I need to know. I have been keeping up with the hush money trial of the former president. And some other stuff, too.<\/p>\n

I will say, though, that my friends’ home is a quiet place without the white noise humming from a television set.<\/p>\n

Am I going to change my ways when I return home to Texas in just a little bit? Hardly.<\/p>\n

The respite, though, is welcome.<\/p>\n\n

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NUREMBERG, Germany — I have been living in a home for the past few days that has no TV. There isn’t one to be found anywhere. You know what? I don’t miss what my Dad used to call the “boob tube” … and he sold them for a living! My friends opened their home to … Continue reading No TV? No big deal!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2978,7734],"class_list":["post-56991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-media","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56992,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56991\/revisions\/56992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}