{"id":700,"date":"2010-04-02T17:40:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T22:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wwco.com\/~wls\/blog\/?p=700"},"modified":"2010-04-02T17:40:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T22:40:12","slug":"an-expensive-tv-recommendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/02\/an-expensive-tv-recommendation\/","title":{"rendered":"An expensive TV recommendation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m at work and we&#8217;re discussing addictive television programs.<\/p>\n<p>My co-worker turns to me and says, &#8220;Have you seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amctv.com:80\/originals\/breakingbad\/about\/\">Breaking Bad<\/a>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m like, &#8220;No. Is it any good?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He says, &#8220;It sure is!&#8221;  And then he goes on to tell me how it&#8217;s on AMC, and that&#8217;s it&#8217;s about a chemistry teacher that turns into a drug kingpin.  The how and why are part of the enticing drama.<\/p>\n<p>So, I pull out my little scrap paper and write &#8216;<strong>breaking bad<\/strong>&#8216; in my notes to remind myself to TiVo it.<\/p>\n<p>Normally the story would end there, but my wife happened to empty out my pockets, saw the note &#8220;breaking bad,&#8221; assumed my spelling was atrocious, and concluded she needed to take my car in to have repairs done.<\/p>\n<p>$230 dollars later I&#8217;ve got shiny new brakes.  &#8220;Funny thing is,&#8221; I&#8217;m told, &#8220;the shop didn&#8217;t think they needed replacing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m at work and we&#8217;re discussing addictive television programs. My co-worker turns to me and says, &#8220;Have you seen Breaking Bad?&#8221; I&#8217;m like, &#8220;No. Is it any good?&#8221; He says, &#8220;It sure is!&#8221; And then he goes on to tell me how it&#8217;s on AMC, and that&#8217;s it&#8217;s about a chemistry teacher that turns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/02\/an-expensive-tv-recommendation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An expensive TV recommendation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-68","category-mishap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wls.wwco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}