{"id":734,"date":"2008-10-26T15:18:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T22:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=734"},"modified":"2009-05-27T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T22:03:58","slug":"sunday-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dropping ballast in anticipation of retirement: satellite radio.\u00a0 Talk about not living up to promises.\u00a0 When I listen to Sirius today, not only do I hear the exact same playlists of songs I heard five years ago (particularly on the Blues Channel, my one-time favorite), I hear commercials.\u00a0 Yeah, terrestrial radio is ten times worse, but I pay $142.45 a year to listen and I shouldn&#8217;t have to hear <em>any<\/em> commercials.\u00a0 What will I listen to?\u00a0 What I&#8217;ve been listening to all along: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Public Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=345\" target=\"_self\">my rant<\/a> about the predictable consequences of placing the USAF&#8217;s low-glamor nuclear mission in the hands of fighter pilots?\u00a0 Yet another predictable consequence: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/generic\/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&amp;id=news\/GSC102408.xml&amp;headline=USAF%20Creates%20Global%20Strike%20Command\" target=\"_blank\">Global Strike Command<\/a>.\u00a0 No word yet on my proposal to transfer the A-10s to the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n<p>By popular demand, a photo of Schatzi:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-736\" style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-736\" title=\"10-26-08_4\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/10-26-08_4.jpg\" alt=\"Pillow dog\" width=\"425\" height=\"423\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pillow dog<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dropping ballast in anticipation of retirement: satellite radio.\u00a0 Talk about not living up to promises.\u00a0 When I listen to Sirius today, not only do I hear the exact same playlists of songs I heard five years ago (particularly on the Blues Channel, my one-time favorite), I hear commercials.\u00a0 Yeah, terrestrial radio is ten times worse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,40,3,16,14,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumerism","category-critters","category-flying","category-media","category-military","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2133,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/2133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}