{"id":26,"date":"2007-09-26T07:02:38","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T11:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2025-06-23T16:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:50:35","slug":"paid-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Paid Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/mousetrap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-136\" title=\"a computer mouse caught in a mousetrap\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/mousetrap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a>Nothing in the universe is worse than some quack hawking his newest &#8220;Miracle Cure&#8221; with a 30 minute commercial. Well, actually, there is worse. Waking UP to a quack hawking his miracle cure.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I pay HUGE money for HDcable and yet 70% of the channels switch over to this paid programming crap after midnight.. Uh, Hello? Why the FUCK and I paying for this drivel? Who CARES if all the people in the world have dirty clogged colons. And why must I be forced to PAY to watch it?<\/p>\n<p>Even more annoying, they are NOW pasting this crud as a &#8220;pre-commerical&#8221; on the VOD stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Mebbe I just hate the old Guilt Pitch, but geeze, can they just lighten up a bit. I&#8217;m either dying of Clogged Colon, Cholesterol, PMD, Diabetes, Erectile Dysfunction, ad nauseum. No wonder Health Care costs so much. We&#8217;ve become a nation of Hypochondriacs thanks to Late Night TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing in the universe is worse than some quack hawking his newest &#8220;Miracle Cure&#8221; with a 30 minute commercial. Well, actually, there is worse. Waking UP to a quack hawking his miracle cure. Now, I pay HUGE money for HDcable and yet 70% of the channels switch over to this paid programming crap after midnight.. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24591,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/24591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisdementedlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}