{"id":1669,"date":"2010-02-02T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2010-02-02T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:19:00","slug":"away-from-the-hype-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/?p=1669","title":{"rendered":"Away From The Hype Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was happy to find out that three of the American TV shows that I watch will start this month. Another bonus for living in a foreign country – no commercials promoting (and spoiling) the TV shows I like. The only way I know about whether a show is going to be on is when I go out and look for broadcast dates on the internet, so I’m very pleased to say that I have no idea what will happen until the episode actually starts. And for me, that is a good thing.<\/p>\n

Today is setsubun<\/a> in Japan – which involves beans, demons and sushi. Clearly an awesome occasion for a holiday. We’ll have two of the three elements going tonight after work. <\/p>\n

On this news this morning the weather today was forecast as being “severely” cold. I put on the long underwear for my journey in to work today, and I’m hoping that I survive the arctic temperatures walking to the office. Unfortunately most of my walk takes place in the shade before the sun comes out, so it will be damn cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was happy to find out that three of the American TV shows that I watch will start this month. Another bonus for living in a foreign country – no commercials promoting (and spoiling) the TV shows I like. The only way I know about whether a show is going to be on is when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOpl7-qV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bryan.fredricks.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}