{"id":49,"date":"2002-12-05T14:59:28","date_gmt":"2002-12-05T14:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=49"},"modified":"2002-12-05T14:59:28","modified_gmt":"2002-12-05T14:59:28","slug":"quick-revelation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/49","title":{"rendered":"Quick revelation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if there&#8217;s any connection between <a href=\"http:\/\/justonething.blogspot.com\/\">Dan Pink<\/a>&#8216;s <i>Free Agent Nation<\/i> rise of work-at-home consultants, TiVo and the rise of nifty television programming for fairly intelligent people (<i>Naked Chef, Junkyard Wars, Monster Garage, Trading Spaces, The West Wing<\/i> etc. etc.).  I know that there are a lot of days that I&#8217;ll put on what TiVo&#8217;s recorded in the last week for background noise.  And I&#8217;m not entirely sure how much my perception of this &#8220;rise of good television&#8221; is related to my growing older and how much is just my losing my taste for crap TV.  I can&#8217;t stand <i>Will and Grace,<\/i> for instance, or almost any other sitcom these days.  I still enjoy <i>Friends<\/i> every so often, but for the most part&#8230;  Ugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if there&#8217;s any connection between Dan Pink&#8216;s Free Agent Nation rise of work-at-home consultants, TiVo and the rise of nifty television programming for fairly intelligent people (Naked Chef, Junkyard Wars, Monster Garage, Trading Spaces, The West Wing etc. etc.). I know that there are a lot of days that I&#8217;ll put on what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-tip-of-the-quill"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-N","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}