{"id":67,"date":"2006-05-10T19:37:23","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T02:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2006-05-21T01:04:42","modified_gmt":"2006-05-21T08:04:42","slug":"weather-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/10\/weather-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how something called &#8220;The Weather Channel&#8221; can get away with showing so little actual weather.  I think they should be forced to intentionally mis-spell their name, the way food manufacturers have to use labels like &#8220;froot&#8221; or &#8220;choklit&#8221; or &#8220;cheeze&#8221; on articles that don&#8217;t contain the actual substance.  <\/p>\n<p>Five minutes watching The Whethur Channel usually breaks down like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 minutes of commercials<\/li>\n<li>30 seconds of fancy graphics informing you what channel you&#8217;re watching (because it <strong>is<\/strong> often hard to tell)<\/li>\n<li>2 minutes 30 seconds of talking heads telling you (and this is the really frustrating part) <strong>what<\/strong> they are going to report on, when and if they finally get around to reporting it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is of approximately equal value to the old rope-on-a-board &#8220;weather forecaster&#8221; they used to sell in novelty shops.  <\/p>\n<p>So get on with it, Whethur Channel.  Content sells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how something called &#8220;The Weather Channel&#8221; can get away with showing so little actual weather. I think they should be forced to intentionally mis-spell their name, the way food manufacturers have to use labels like &#8220;froot&#8221; or &#8220;choklit&#8221; or &#8220;cheeze&#8221; on articles that don&#8217;t contain the actual substance. Five minutes watching The Whethur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}