{"id":59417,"date":"2026-01-31T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59417"},"modified":"2026-01-31T00:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:00:27","slug":"not-missing-the-tv-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59417","title":{"rendered":"Not missing the TV noise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">A while ago I decided to keep the TV turned off during the day while I was home piddling and putzing around the house or playing with my puppies.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>My concern at the time was whether I would miss what has become &#8220;white noise&#8221; associated with the chatter coming from what my Dad used to call the &#8220;boob tube.&#8221; I am happy to make this announcement.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>I haven&#8217;t missed the noise. Not one teeny, tiny little bit.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t have done this as a much younger man or a teenager. I was addicted to TV. I admit it freely and without reservation. That addiction has cured itself partly because I am much longer in the tooth these days and also because the programming bores me out of my pointy-headed skull.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The news? Hah! <em>Fuhgetabout it!<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The news might be the most boring element all the programming I formerly watched. Why does it bore me? Partly because it doesn&#8217;t tell me what I don&#8217;t already know. I am not being snobby. I merely am telling the truth. I follow issues of the day pretty closely through a variety of media forums. TV doesn&#8217;t provide much context or new info for me to digest.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Anyhow &#8230; the decision awaiting me now is whether I continue to keep the house quiet during the day. Hey, there&#8217;s no real decision to make. Of course I intend to keep doing what I&#8217;ve been doing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The news? I&#8217;ll stay ready to weigh in when the time is right for it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I decided to keep the TV turned off during the day while I was home piddling and putzing around the house or playing with my puppies. My concern at the time was whether I would miss what has become &#8220;white noise&#8221; associated with the chatter coming from what my Dad used to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59417\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not missing the TV noise<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[6712,2978],"class_list":["post-59417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-fake-news","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59417","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=59417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59419,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59417\/revisions\/59419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}