{"id":15,"date":"2004-11-20T10:01:35","date_gmt":"2004-11-20T02:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2004-11-20T10:01:35","modified_gmt":"2004-11-20T02:01:35","slug":"cable-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/general\/cable-tv-15","title":{"rendered":"Cable TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is it with cable TV? There is certainly some quality on cable - if I watch anything it is Discovery Channel, Bloomberg and Australia's ABC Asia-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I was naive, but I expected cable TV to be advertisement free - after all, you are paying for it.<\/p>\n<p>But you get this irritating ad break every 8 minutes or so, just like free-to-air stations. When you are engrossed in something meaty, it is damn annoying. At least ABC gives us some uninterrupted programmes.<\/p>\n<p>But I keep paying the subscription - I can always tape the show and play it back later to get rid of the ads...<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/general\/cable-tv-15#comments\" id=\"comms\">2 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it with cable TV? There is certainly some quality on cable - if I watch anything it is Discovery Channel, Bloomberg and Australia's ABC Asia-Pacific. I guess I was naive, but I expected cable TV to be advertisement free - after all, you are paying for it. But you get this irritating ad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}