{"id":8538,"date":"2018-02-15T09:42:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T17:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/?p=8538"},"modified":"2018-02-15T09:42:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T17:42:45","slug":"a-delightful-evening-without-commentators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/a-delightful-evening-without-commentators\/","title":{"rendered":"A delightful evening&#8212;without commentators."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We managed, with a combo of Hulu and NBC, to get a feed of the Olympic opening ceremonies&#8212;without commentators. Delightful. For once, we could watch something spectacular and TALK to each other in our own living room, without two blathering voices overlaying a point we might want to hear, or having the camera jolt away from something pretty to focus on some specific athlete, following by happytalk inanity for a full minute, discussing the cutaway, and the weather.<\/p>\n<p>Joy, oh, joy! We also got to see an NBC skating feed that showed the technical scores at the bottom, element by element, so we could see where the deducts were&#8212;wonderful!<\/p>\n<p>TV as it ought to be. Now, if we could only get our Mariners baseball! [blackout rules.] But major victory for civilized living room conversation!<\/p>\n<p>I also got the results of the first doc visit&#8212;tests are clean and levels are good and we are happy.<\/p>\n<p>Winter is back&#8212;headed for 14 degree night-time temps and more snow. I think I am going to do some major grocery shopping today, while we have the major streets clear!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We managed, with a combo of Hulu and NBC, to get a feed of the Olympic opening ceremonies&#8212;without commentators. Delightful. For once, we could watch something spectacular and TALK to each other in our own living room, without two blathering voices overlaying a point we might want to hear, or having the camera jolt away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8539,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions\/8539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}