{"id":72,"date":"2006-06-27T13:52:42","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T18:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/27\/just-bring-my-my-wapner\/"},"modified":"2006-06-27T14:11:23","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T19:11:23","slug":"just-bring-my-my-wapner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/27\/just-bring-my-my-wapner\/","title":{"rendered":"Just bring my my Wapner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">When are these pompous air-heads (pun intended) over at the cable co&#8217;s going to get it?\u00c2\u00a0 All I want from them, and all I will EVER pay for, is the delivery of bits.\u00c2\u00a0 I will NOT pay more for DVR, or an up-charge for HD content, or a &#8216;box rental&#8217;,\u00c2\u00a0 They are a common carrier, remember those?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">Oh, and I refuse to pay more for &#8216;digital quality&#8217; when it is, at least in my area, inferior to the analog signals and certainly far inferior to OTA HD signals.\u00c2\u00a0 That, and I refuse to pay more for something that I know costs them less, per channel, to deliver to me than analog.\u00c2\u00a0 And don&#8217;t even get me started on ATM fees&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">Until I can have ala carte billing, and pay only for those channels that I actually care about (ESPN Classic?\u00c2\u00a0 Please&#8230;) my CableCo will get nothing from me but ire.\u00c2\u00a0 That is, unless they open the cable plant to competition&#8230; Yeah, I thought so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20060626\/2248201.shtml\">Techdirt: Cable Guy Says Portals Are Toast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When are these pompous air-heads (pun intended) over at the cable co&#8217;s going to get it?\u00c2\u00a0 All I want from them, and all I will EVER pay for, is the delivery of bits.\u00c2\u00a0 I will NOT pay more for DVR, or an up-charge for HD content, or a &#8216;box rental&#8217;,\u00c2\u00a0 They are a common carrier, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/27\/just-bring-my-my-wapner\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just bring my my Wapner<\/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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogroll"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streamingmeemee.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}